PGI Chandigarh falls in image plagiarism controversy, NEJM retracts image
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Chandigarh: An associate professor of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh found himself surrounded with allegations of plagiarism after the image used by him in his recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) was found to have been already published in another jounal in 2015
The issue came to prominence after the international journal, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) retracted his publication last Monday.
The doctor, an Ophthalmologist, had published a case study of a woman suffering from retinal hemorrhage from blunt ocular trauma on December 5, 2019. The image that was used in the publication had already been published in a journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), in December 2015 issue.
Dr Rajesh Rao, the retinal social media editor, AAO, was the first who observed the matter and informed NEJM about it. He wrote to NEJM that the picture presented in the study had been copied and originally belongs to Mark Clark of Wake Forest University. He shared his letter to the NEJM on his Twitter account
The issue came to prominence after the international journal, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) retracted his publication last Monday.
The doctor, an Ophthalmologist, had published a case study of a woman suffering from retinal hemorrhage from blunt ocular trauma on December 5, 2019. The image that was used in the publication had already been published in a journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), in December 2015 issue.
Dr Rajesh Rao, the retinal social media editor, AAO, was the first who observed the matter and informed NEJM about it. He wrote to NEJM that the picture presented in the study had been copied and originally belongs to Mark Clark of Wake Forest University. He shared his letter to the NEJM on his Twitter account
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