We caught it here, but our system is broken

A former assistant professor from Pitt's School of Nursing was caught plagiarizing and has been sanctioned.

Although the article cleared the peer review process, the editor decided to run the article through the Cross Check database, a compendium of previously published research. When the check verified her suspicions, the editors checked Weber's other articles.

"The machine caught it. The system worked," Spilka said.

Ultimately, the publisher issued retraction notices on seven articles that ran in the three magazines and halted publication of several other articles.

We caught it here in Mt. Lebanon, but our system is broken. 

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