Ingelfinger rule
In scientific publishing, the Ingelfinger rule stipulates that a scientist may not publish the same original research in two different outlets.[1] It was created in 1969 by Franz J. Ingelfinger, who at the time was editor of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), as an effort to prevent NEJM from losing originality. The rule was subsequently adopted by several other scientific journals, and shaped scientific publishing ever since.[2]
Background
The Ingelfinger rule has been seen as having the aim of preventing authors from performing double publications which would unduly inflate their publication record.[3] On the other hand it has also been stated that the real reason for the Ingelfinger rule is to protect the journals' revenue stream, and with the increase in popularity of preprint servers such as arXiv,figshare bioRχiv, and PeerJPrePrints many journals have loosened their requirements concerning the Ingelfinger rule.[4]
References
- ↑ "Ingelfinger rule definition". Medicine.net. 13 June 2000. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- ↑ Marshall, E. (1998). "Franz Ingelfinger's Legacy Shaped Biology Publishing". Science 282 (5390): 861–3, 865–7. doi:10.1126/science.282.5390.861. PMID 9841429.
- ↑ Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras: On the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications in different scientific fields (1980-2007)
- ↑ Christine L. Borgman: Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet, MIT Press, October 31, 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-02619-2, p. 99
Further reading
- Spain, A (26 February 2011). "Casting a critical eye on the embargo system: one year of Embargo Watch". Association of British Science Writers. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- Altman, LK (1996). "The Ingelfinger rule, embargoes, and journal peer review–Part 1". The Lancet 347 (9012): 1382–6. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(96)91016-8. PMID 8637347.
- Relman, AS (1981). "The Ingelfinger Rule". The New England Journal of Medicine 305 (14): 824–6. doi:10.1056/NEJM198110013051408. PMID 7266634.
- Toy, S (2002). "The Ingelfinger Rule: Franz Ingelfinger at the New England Journal of Medicine 1967–77". Science Editor 25 (6): 195–198.
- Harnad, S (2000). "Ingelfinger Over-Ruled: The Role of the Web in the Future of Refereed Medical Journal Publishing". The Lancet Perspectives 356: s16. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)92002-6.