Redundant Publication

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Abstract
An investigator's success in academic medicine is in large part measured by the number of his or her publications. The consequent inducement for researchers to lengthen their bibliographies has generated a number of unfortunate practices, among them the very common one of reporting what is essentially one study in two or more fragmented or overlapping publications. Although it has recently become customary to deplore such redundant publication, the practice continues unabated. One problem in dealing with redundant publication is that it is sometimes difficult to define, and faced with incentives to publish more rather than less, investigators are naturally inclined . . .