Are the Authors of Scientific Articles Protected Against Plagiarism? 27 Years of Experience Shows that Rather Plagiarists are Protected in the Peer Review System

Abstract

The Author of this article in 1990 submitted for publishing a manuscript describing the split-mix combinatorial synthesis and the invention was expropriated and published by the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research and all the three reviewers are suspected to do so. The Author tried to seek justice but it was refused by the Editor in chief of Nature (where the expropriated invention was published), by the Office of Research Integrity at NIH and by the by the Munksgaard International Publishers, Copenhagen, publisher of the International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research. Since the plagiarists continued to publish misleading papers the Author sent 10 correction letters to the journals but only three were published. The Committee on Ethics of the American Chemical Society also refrained from acting. In order to avoid happening again of the mentioned type of plagiarism, introduction of new rules is suggested by the Author.