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Libraly Journal ›› 2019, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (9): 32-40.

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An Empirical Study on the Phenomenon of Duplicate Publication: A Quantitative Analysis Based on the Enterprise Economy

Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Yu, Liu Yu   

  • Online:2019-09-15 Published:2019-09-12

Abstract: As a typical type of academic anomie, duplicate publication has attracted more and more
attention by the academia. However, there is a few empirical research done in China in this regard. Taking
the category “Enterprise Economy” of “Economy and Management Discipline” in CNKI database as the
research object, this paper collected the data of 1 157 484 periodical articles published in 1994—2014 and
identified 1 573 to be duplicate papers. The characteristics of duplicate publication were analyzed from the
perspectives of publication time, interval between publications, publication times, author attributes and
publishing paths.

Key words: Duplicate publication, Research misconduct, Enterprise economy, Business, Economics