Abstract
It is generally very enjoyable and gratifying to be an editor of a journal. I count my blessings to be part of Prostate Cancerand Prostatic Diseases in this regard. However, occasionally the job is unpleasant. We recently faced a serious case of plagiarism which borrowed heavily from a 2005 paper published in Human Reproduction. Our aim in responding was to be fair and act immediately. We decided to: withdraw the offending article, admonish the authors in a letter, ban the authors from future publication in our journal, and we alerted other editors about this editorial misconduct. Despite what we thought was adequate peer review, this one slipped through the cracks and we apologize to our readership. Our experience is apparently not unique. A recent outstanding editorial by Qais Al-Awqati in Kidney International reports a remarkably similar case. Al-Awqati makes the key points that this business is built on trust, that we are not able to fully police this activity and that we are at the mercy of honesty of our authors.
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