Charts Reused on a Scientometrics Article

An anonymous source told the 5GH team that some charts on a Scientometrics article [1] were reused from other articles [2-3]. Through an investigation, the 5GH team found 5 charts on the Scientometrics article [1], including Table 2, Figure 2, Figure 3, Table 3, and Figure 6 overlapped with tables and figures on other articles [2-3].

Additionally, another two articles [4-5] from the same researchers' group are found sharing identical tables and figures with each other.



Reference

[1] 10.1007/s11192-020-03612-4

[2] 10.3772/j.issn.1000-0135.2019.04.002

[3] Wang et. al., ISSI 2019

[4] Chen et. al., ISSI 2017

[5] 10.3772/j.issn.1000-0135.2019.08.006






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20241124.001

Publication Date: 2024.11.24

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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