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One of the biggest change in the history of the Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society(JKNS) had been introduced in 2005. From January 2005, all manuscripts submitted to JKNS should be written in English. This new regulation was followed by many changes in characteristics of the papers published on JKNS in 2005. The authors present an analysis of papers published on JKNS and compared with those of 2004 and 2003. In total, 184 articles were published in 2005. Since a review article was requested by the editorial office to the authors, 183 articles were peer reviewed. Eighty five clinical articles, 75 case reports, 19 laboratory investigations, two special articles and two technical reports were printed. This distribution was not statistically different from 2004's distribution (p=0.67), even though the ratio of clinical articles was decreased to 46.4% from 54.4%. Due to the change in language specification, English articles were increased with statistical significance (p<0.001). There were several events related with copyright of the contents of the papers published on JKNS. We think these are some good points came with change in official language to English. General trends of the papers seemed to be in the right way.
Copyright ; Peer Review

I have encountered 3 cases of plagiarism as editor of the Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS). The first one was copying figures from a JKMS article without citation, the second was submission of a copied manuscript of a published article to JKMS, and the third was publishing a copied JKMS article in another journal. The first and third cases violated copyrights of JKMS, but the violating journals made no action on the misconduct. The second and third cases were slightly modified copies of the source articles but similarity check by the Crosscheck could not identify the text overlap initially and after one year reported 96% overlap for the second case. The similarity of the third case was reported 3%. The Crosscheck must upgrade its system for better reliable screening of text plagiarism. The copy of the second case was committed by a corrupt Chinese editing company and also by some unethical researchers. In conclusion, plagiarism still threatens the trustworthiness of the publishing enterprises and is a cumbersome burden for editors of scholarly journals. We require a better system to increase the vigilance and to prevent the misconduct.
Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Copyright ; Humans ; Mass Screening ; Plagiarism*

Duplicate publication is publishing of an article that is identical to or overlaps considerable parts with one that has been already published elsewhere. If one or more authors retain common authorship in two separate papers with the same context, the papers are considered to be duplicated, but not plagiarized. The corresponding author was usually the case, but the first author is changed frequently. The characteristics of duplicate publication in Korea are republication of paper in journals indexed in SCI database after publishing in Korean journal one or two years before. In almost all cases they are not cross referenced. In Korean cases of duplicate publication, duplicate submissions are not rare. Generally the title is modified, and the list of authors and the sample size undergo a minor change with trivial methodological changes. Multiple publications in Korean journals usually consist of fragmentation (salami slicing) publications and overlapping (imalas) publications. Duplicate publication is an unethical behavior because of the waste of resources such as valuable time of busy reviewers, editorial work and pages, space of indexing database, and delaying the publication time of other researcher's paper. Duplicate publication is a violation of international copyright law as well. Sometimes it can distort or overemphasize the results in meta-analysis studies because of overlapping of samples. To prevent duplicate publication, the editor should provide instructions regarding the journal's policy toward duplicate publication and should make authors to read the instruction in detail. Educational programs for the reviewers will reduce the incidence by letting them know why and how to detect duplicate publication.
Abstracting and Indexing as Topic ; Authorship ; Copyright ; Ethics* ; Incidence ; Jurisprudence ; Korea ; Linear Energy Transfer ; Publications* ; Sample Size

National health screening program for infants and children in Korea was launched in November 2007 to cope with current health issues, such as high prevalence of accidents and incremental trends of developmental disorders and obesity. It is a kind of population surveillance systems which contains history taking, physical examination, anthropometric measurements, screening for visual acuity and questionnaires with anticipatory guidance. This program has been successfully implanted as one of the primary clinical services. First year's rate of participation was 35.3%. For the next few years, participation rate should be improved and quality control may be needed especially about counseling with the anticipatory guidance. Sociocultural changes and legislation should be tried to encourage double-income couples to bring their children for this periodic examination. Abnormal results were relatively high in the babies with the history of prematurity and low economical status. Thus, these groups could be the targets of the public health supports. To meet the future computerization of the health screening system, it is needed to develop the Korean developmental screening tools to replace K-ASQ (Korean Ages & Stages Questionnaires), which is currently under foreign copyright. Regular revision of the protocols and questionnaires are also important to maintain this screening system as evidence-based.
Child ; Copyright ; Counseling ; Family Characteristics ; Humans ; Infant ; Korea ; Mass Screening ; Obesity ; Phosphatidylethanolamines ; Physical Examination ; Population Surveillance ; Prevalence ; Public Health ; Quality Control ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Visual Acuity