Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Duplicate publications: redundancy in plastic surgery literature☆
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Methods
Original articles published during 2000 in the British Journal of Plastic Surgery (BJPS) and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) were searched using the on-line search engine PubMed on the internet (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/medline.html). Review articles, invited contributions, editorials, case reports, CME articles and letters were excluded. Some articles were published in categories that do not fit neatly into any of the above. For the purposes of this study, any such article
Results
A total of 431 abstracts from BJPS and PRS published in 2000 were screened (Table 2). Of the 33 articles identified as ‘suspected redundant’ publications, 21 were deemed to be non-duplicate when the full text versions were compared with the index article; eight could not be graded because they were published in a foreign language journal and four were confirmed as having a degree of redundancy (Table 3). The 33 suspected articles related to 27 index articles, and the four redundant publications
Discussion
Since the study of redundancy in general surgery literature,2 several studies have identified and assessed the scope of this problem within other surgical specialties. One in 13 (7.6%) of publications in the orthopaedic literature was found to have some degree of redundancy,7 8.5% of articles in otolaryngology literature, 1.4% of publications in ophthalmology and 2% of hand surgery publications were identified as duplicate.8, 9, 10 In this study, less than 1% of publications in two leading
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