Takeshi Shimada

Questions Asked

How should I understand the result of plagiarism check and take action for that?

When I checked my paper with a plagiarism check tool (iThenticate), the most overlapped part is shown as an internet site where several thousand publications from fashion magazines to academic…

How can I ask the authors of a published paper about the data for my meta-analysis? (Part 2)

I sent a question about meta-analysis earlier. I have some more questions related to the previous question. When I ask the previous authors about their data (mean value, standard deviation and number…

How can I ask the authors of a published paper about the data for my meta-analysis? (Part 1)

While performing meta-analysis for an intervention, I want to know the mean value, standard deviation and number of samples of each extracted paper. But some results are reported in graphs…

We discovered a copyright agreement breach after publishing our research paper. What action should we take?

I used an evaluation measure created overseas for a clinical study to investigate the effect of a medical treatment. Upon use of this evaluation measure, an agreement for usage was…