International Journal of Pharmacology offered Mohammad Abdollahi Prize for Most Cited Paper Award.

International Journal of Pharmacology is pleased to announce the establishment of “Top Cited Paper Award” named “Mohammad Abdollahi Prize” to papers published in the past two years, to show our appreciation to authors that published with us. The highly cited papers will be awarded US$1000 and a certificate issued by the Journal Management and its Editor-in-Chief.

Citations of papers will be based on Scopus/Elsevier report. Papers for this distinction will be determined solely based on the highest number of cites, excluding self-citations, received for all journal articles published between the years 2010-2011.

Asian Network for Scientific Information has launched this award with the hope that this award will stimulate the best minds to release their work.

Asian Network for Scientific Information has launched this award with the name of Mohammad Abdollahi Prize to recognize the services of Professor Mohammad Abdollahi for the International Journal of Pharmacology.

Professor P.M. Mohan, from Pondicherry University, India pointed out a plagiarism in a paper published in Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science Volume 6, 642-648, 2011.

On the receipt of the letter from P.M. Mohan, the case forwarded to the Ethics Committee of the Science Alert. As per the report of the Ethics Committee, article entitled “Molecular Taxonomy of Plectropomus maculates (Serranidae) by DNA Barcode (COI) from Andaman Sea.” authored by V. Madhan Chakkaravarthy, C. Raghunathan, K. Venkataraman and M. Gabriel Paulraj, published in  Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 6: 642-648. (DOI: 10.3923/jfas.2011.642.648) contains substantial sections of text that have been taken verbatim from earlier publication without clear and unambiguous attribution.

Science Alert considers misappropriation of intellectual property and duplication of text from other authors or publications without clear and unambiguous attribution totally unacceptable.

Plagiarism is a violation of copyright and a serious breach of scientific ethics. The Editors and Publisher have agreed to officially retract this article.

Science Alert is highly thankful to Prof.P.M. Mohan, Head, Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, Brookshabad Campus, Post Bag No.26, Junglighat, Port Blair – 744103, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India for pointing out this plagiarism.

Detail of article from which text has been copied by V. Madhan Chakkaravarthy, C. Raghunathan, K. Venkataraman and M. Gabriel Paulraj:

Mohan, P.M., V. Sachithanandam, P. Dhivya, R. Baskaran, N. Muruganandam, I. K. Chaaitinya and P. Vijayachari, 2010. Molecular Taxonomy of Serranidae (Plectropomus maculates) using DNA Barcode (Cytochrome C. Oxidase-I) from Andaman Coast, Port Blair, India. First National Conference on Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. December 2010, pp: 92