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icchina 发表于 2012-5-20 22:55
您做了一件非常了不起的工作，我支持您的行动。
作者好像是美国一家公司的人员：Menyhay Healthcare Sys ...
收到了AJIC编辑的回复了。分了三个LETTER，第一个是对方的解释，张贴出来。
Dear Dr. Larsen,
Suffice it to say, I was indeed shocked by your e-mail and the inference that Mr. Menyhay and I were guilty of duplicate publication of an original paper in AJIC in 2008, a paper we originally published in ICHE in 2006.
First of all, I was particularly surprised to learn of the second publication dealing with our study, published in AJIC in 2008, since I was totally unaware of its existence. Appended is an April 2012 copy of my CV -- copies of which were recently sent to ALTHA and ATS, long before I received your e-mail, for national symposia at which I spoke last week (and which you can obtain from them for corroboration, if you wish) -- and you will see that I do not even list the 2008 AJIC paper in my CV.
On receiving your email, I immediately contacted Mr Menyhay, who lives in California, and drilled down on the 2008 AJIC issue and learned that the findings of our original study published in ICHE in 2006 were the substance of a presentation Mr Menyhay was invited by Cardinal Health to give at the Eighth International Cardinal Health Symposium on HCABSIs, and like the other presentations at that symposium Mr Menyhay’s presentation was was edited by a professional writer from Cardinal and published in a a 2008 issue of AJIC. (see attached copies of Mr Menyhay's emails regarding the symposium and its publication in AJIC)
Thus, this was clearly not an effort at duplicate publication of the same original research data. Rather, it was a presentation of a single simple study at an invited research symposium where the organizers were fully aware that the data had already been published a year earlier (see emails), a presentation in which the original data formed the basis for the interest in the study which Mr Menyhay presented in its entirety. (How could he have presented any other data than the findings of our study?). Many many researchers around the world republish their original published research data (often again and again) in the proceedings of research symposia or invited reviews, obviously packaging it a little differently each time, and this is never considered duplicate publication (rather, is considered desirable academically, "advancing medical communication").
Mr Menyhay, an extraordinarily dedicated critical care nurse who I consider to be highly ethical and honest to the point of pain, is not an experienced researcher, and this was his very first research study and our 2006 ICHE paper was his first original publication. I designed the study of his innovative technology and analyzed the data with him, and wrote most of the original ICHE paper because of his inexperience. However, Mr. Menyhay is aware that duplicate publication of an original research study is ethically unacceptable and violates copyright law but believed in 2008 that it was ethically acceptable to present the published data at an invited research symposium where the organizers were clearly fully aware that the data had already been published a year earlier (and never raised the issue of duplicate publication), and he believed that a discussion of our original study focusing on the findings and their potential implications would be acceptable in this unique format, if he modified the text of paper, which he cleaarly did. I would point out that the Mr Menyhay's paper in the special AJIC 8th Symposium issue could not have been more direct or honest: since it states at the outset that we had done an original research study, acknowledging that it was already published since the original ICHE paper is the first citation of the AJIC paper. (the original manuscript he submitted to Cardinal health for publication, also attached, was even more direct in this regard).
It would be a patent injustice to conclude that Mr. Menyhay’s AJIC publication represents duplicate publication of an original research study and for him to be censored or punished. In that same issue of AJIC, Dr Provonost has a published paper discussing the Keystone Study, originally published in the NEJM, which contains data from the original NEJM publication (almost certainly his nth invited publication rehashing the data and discussing that study, published long ago) but neither you nor I would dream of considering Dr Provonost’s article duplicate publication. Mr Menyhay is a rookie in academic medical publishing and was not nearly as skilled as Dr Provonost in repackaging the data or text he published in the AJIC issue, however, he made an honest (albeit naive) effort to rewrite the paper, shortening it, using a new critical Figure 1 and fewer but several new references. (I'm frankly shocked that the professional medical writer who extensively edited the Introduction of his submitted manuscript did not provide more assistance which would have eliminated any appeaarance of duplicate publication). I feel very strongly that in the spirit of fairness, Mr. Menyhay’s actions are no different than those of Dr Provonost; Dr Menyhay was only far less skilled at presenting previously published data in a sufficiently different format that it would not raise the spectre of duplicate publication (and he received no assistance on this matter from the professional medical writer editing his manuscript)..
Finally, given that Mr Menyhay acknowledged at the very outset in the AJIC paper that this study had already been published and provided the citation, I would have expected your reviewers and editors to have raised the question of duplicate publication at the time the manuscript was being processed for publication, which they obviously didn't (and thus they presumably did not consider it to represent duplicate publication at the time).
I appreciated the opportunity to discuss these issues with you by telephone yesterday.
Thank you.
Dennis G Maki, MD Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases Attending Physician, Center for Trauma and Life Support
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您做了一件非常了不起的事，作为一名学者就需要这种执着精神，维护学术的尊严是每一个正直人都应该做的事。您的行动让人敬佩。