Abstract
This story began in 2006, when Iain Chalmers, discussing the obligation of authors of systematic reviews to detect plagiarism, used the example of plagiarizer Asim Kurjak from Croatia.1 Journal editors who were confronted with plagiarism developed methods of handling cases of plagiarism years ago, and more general regulations in relation to research misconduct were prepared.2 In the Croatian case, some journals did what they ought to do: the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) checked all publications by A. Kurjak, found duplicate publications and marked them as retracted in MEDLINE. Now of 252 publications by A. Kurjak as they appear in MEDLINE only 2 articles retracted by CMJ are marked as ‘retracted’. It is the visible tip of an iceberg of plagiarism. Unfortunately, the Dean of the Zagreb School … Correspondence: Vasiliy V. Vlassov, Department of Research Methodology, Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia. e-mail: vlassov{at}cochrane.ru
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