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P-ISSN: 2006 – 1781; E-ISSN: 2672 – 4278 . ..published since 2008
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PUBLIC ALERT! PUBLIC ALERT! PUBLIC ALERT!
The Editor-in-Chief of this journal will like to draw the attention of our teeming patrons that a case of almost 100% plagiarism of our published paper by another journal has been detected. The only significant changes made in the original paper are (i) Figure numbers were changed (ii) The list of references was re-arranged such that the surname of an author comes first, unlike the original paper where initials of an author come first. Even the title of paper appears exactly as it is in the plagiarized paper!
In September 2020, the journal was notified by the original authors of the plagiarized paper about the above breach of intellectual norm. Subsequently, the attention of the journal which plagiarized the paper (i.e. publisher and editor-in-chief) was drawn twice to this infraction. So also were the authors and Management of the institution where the culprits are affiliated to. However, there was no single response to our complaints, not even an acknowledgement!
We are hereby publishing detailed information on the infraction vis-a-vis breach of intellectual property. We wish to say that retractionwatch.com has been notified about our observation.
Title of Original Paper: ‘Development of a Secured Watchdog Mechanism under Blackhole Attacks in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks’.
Authors of Paper: I. T. Ayorinde, C. A. Fehintola and O. D. Adeniji
Journal Where Paper Was Originally Published: African Journal of Computing & ICT, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 85-92, September 2019 (Nigeria/South Africa); P-ISSN 2006-1781; E-ISSN [Record in the journal’s database shows that the paper was first submitted to the journal on 8th May, 2019; the final revised version was received on 7th July, 2019 while it was accepted via an acceptance letter on 10th July, 2019].
Institution of Affiliation of Original Authors of Paper: Department of Computer Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Title of Re-Published Paper: ‘Development of a Secured Watchdog Mechanism under Blackhole Attacks in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks’
Authors who Plagiarized the Original Paper: Denise Konrad and Alexander Hanna
Institution of Affiliation of Authors who Re-Published Original Paper: Department of Computer Science, Technical University Berlin Strasse Des 17, Juni 135 10623 Berlin, Germany.
Journal Where Paper Was Re-Published: International Journal of Computing, Programming and Database Management, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 18-21, 2020 (Bangladesh/India); https://doi.org/10.33545/27076636; P-ISSN 2707-6636; E-ISSN 2707-6644 [According to the first page of the re-published paper as it appears in the journal, the paper was received by the journal on 10th November, 2019 and accepted on 12th December, 2019]
Editor-in-Chief of Journal which Re-Published Paper: Dr. R. Narendran, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.