Notice

189Urology Journal    Vol 4    No 3    Summer 2007

Notice of Inadvertent Duplicate Publication
Urol J. 2007;4:189. 

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The Urology Journal wishes to draw attention to a paper by Nikoobakht and 
colleagues, “The Relationship Between Lipid Profile and Erectile Dysfunction,” 
which was published in volume 2, number 1 (winter 2005) of  the journal, 
that is similar to an article by the same authors and same title, published in the 
International Journal of  Impotence Research 2005;17:523-6. This inadvertent duplicate 
publication has occurred as a result of  misinterpretation of  local journals and 
a different group of  readers; in 2005, our journal was not being indexed in the 
international indexing systems and used to be considered as a local publication. 
Moreover, many authors were not familiar with the regulations of  acceptable 
secondary publication. In this case, the corresponding author was contacted and 
it was confirmed that this is a case of  inadvertent duplicate publication and the 
mistake was a result of  a misunderstanding of  the regulations by authors.