Samuel Greiff
Just as a short update: Thanks to the discussion here on pubpeer.com, the journal has decided to finally react to our query and has included the footnote we would have liked to see in the paper from…
Just as a short update: Thanks to the discussion here on pubpeer.com, the journal has decided to finally react to our query and has included the footnote we would have liked to see in the paper from…
I think the previous comment answers the 2nd question, because it was exactly as described: The Springer chapter was a conference paper and a substantially extended version of this was submitted as a…
though extending conference papers for journal publication is normal practice for engineering-type research, that journal seems a little odd...
A key question arises: why did the authors publish the second paper in such an obscure journal?A second key question arises: why did the authors not simply remove self-plagiarised or duplicated text…