Healthy Skepticism Library item: 9288

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Publication type: Journal Article

Gornall J.
Duplicate publication: a bitter dispute
BMJ 2007 Apr 7; 334:(7596):717
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7596/717

Abstract:

Korea’s scientific community is once again under scrutiny as a row erupts about the origins of a study published in a Korean and a US journal.

A bitter dispute over the authorship of a twice published medical paper has pitted a 35 year old Korean doctor against one of the most powerful players in the country’s struggle for biotech supremacy. The battle is threatening to disrupt Korea’s efforts to recover scientific credibility in the wake of the recent scandal over Woo-Sok Hwang’s stem cell research.1

On one side is Jeong Hwan Kim, a Korean doctor now working in Singapore. On the other is Kwang Yul Cha, a fertility specialist with important medical business interests in Korea and the United States and an emerging front runner in the race to inherit the disgraced Hwang’s crown as Korea’s foremost stem cell research pioneer.

Dr Kim claims a paper about premature ovarian failure that he originally published in the Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in January 20042 was translated and republished in the American journal Fertility . . .

Origins

Duplicate publication

Disputed history

Twists of evolution