{"id":357,"date":"2011-05-06T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:57:22","slug":"357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/06\/357\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-creative re-use of J. Chem. Inf. editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breakfastcore\/269400999\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Courtesy of Breakfast for Dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/87\/269400999_4c8fde5341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Breakfast for Dinner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was recently alerted by someone about chunks of text copied from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcheminf.com\/content\/1\/1\/1\" target=\"_blank\">editorial by my colleague David Wild in the Journal of Cheminformatics [\ufeff1]<\/a> appearing in another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omicsonline.com\/ArchiveJPB\/2010\/August\/03\/JPB-03-249.php\" target=\"_blank\">article by Nutan Prakash and Dinta A. Gareja in the Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics\u00a0[2]<\/a>.\u00a0While David&#8217;s article is cited as a reference, those larger chunks of text are clearly not identified as being his words.<\/p>\n<p>A closer investigation reveals that large chunks of text [2] are copied from other sources. The introduction is copied from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheminformatics\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia article on Cheminformatics<\/a> as well as from an article by \u00a0Aktar and Murmu and one by\u00a0Karthikeyan and Krishnan. The latter is cited but the first two sources are not. Generally, citations for these questionable cases appear only as references at the end of the text and are not marked in the text.<\/p>\n<p>It is a common misconception that text from wikipedia can be freely abused. The license says:<\/p>\n<p><em>Re-use of text:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) a list of all authors.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although David&#8217;s original article is cited and therefore I think formally the original license was not violated, this somehow feels a little disturbing and I would appreciate your comments on this.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this text [2] is clearly a patch-work of unaltered text from other sources without original contributions from the authors and should not have been published.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcheminf.com\/content\/1\/1\/1\" target=\"_blank\">[1] David J Wild, Grand challenges for cheminformatics, Journal of Cheminformatics 2009, 1:1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omicsonline.com\/ArchiveJPB\/2010\/August\/03\/JPB-03-249.php\" target=\"_blank\">[2]\u00a0Prakash N, Gareja DA (2010) Cheminformatics. J Proteomics Bioinform 3: 249-252.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently alerted by someone about chunks of text copied from an editorial by my colleague David Wild in the Journal of Cheminformatics [\ufeff1] appearing in another article by Nutan Prakash and Dinta A. Gareja in the Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics\u00a0[2].\u00a0While David&#8217;s article is cited as a reference, those larger chunks of text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}