The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on August 28, 2008
The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(5):435; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn068
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Dangers of doing right things in a wrong place
Vasiliy V. VlassovMoscow Medical Academy
Correspondence: Vasiliy V. Vlassov, Department of Research Methodology, Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia. e-mail: vlassov@cochrane.ru
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This story began in 2006, when Iain Chalmers, discussing the obligation of authors of systematic reviews to detect plagiarism, used the example of plagiarizer Asim Kurjak from Croatia.1 Journal editors who were confronted with plagiarism developed methods of handling cases of plagiarism years ago, and more general regulations in relation to research misconduct were prepared.2 In the Croatian case, some journals did what