Boeing engineer has two papers retracted for duplication

The editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration has retracted two papers by a Boeing engineer because the author reused his previous work.

Here’s the notice for “A component-based model for aircraft landing gear noise prediction,” by Yueping Guo:

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.

The article duplicates significant parts of an earlier report by the same author, published in HYPERLINK http://www.ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050209966_2005210253.pdf

Prior to republication, such reports and papers should be comprehensively extended, and re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.

The paper has been cited nine times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.

And here’s the notice for “Flap side edge noise modeling and prediction:”

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.

The article duplicates significant parts of an earlier paper by the same author, published in AIAA (Y.P. Guo, Aircraft flap side edge noise modeling and prediction. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (2011), 10.2514/6.2011-2731). Prior to republication, conference papers should be comprehensively extended, and re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.

The second paper has been cited once.

We’ve asked Guo for comment, and will update with anything we learn.

Meanwhile, Retraction Watch readers may recall that it was another journal with “vibration” in its title — the Journal of Vibration and Control — that retracted 60 papers earlier this month after discovering a “peer review and citation ring.”