Tuesday 14 January 2020

publications - Is it ethical to slightly improve upon someone's unpublished work posted in arxiv and publish before the original work?


Is it ethical to slightly improve upon someone's work posted in arxiv and publish before the original work, however citing the original work?


I mean suppose the original work gets rejected in a top-tier journal (generally top-tier journal takes so much time) whereas the improved version gets accepted in a mediocre journal (suppose the mediocre journal is fast in reviewing).


Then what should the author of the original work (I am the author of the original work) should do?




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