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Notice

262 Urology Journal   Vol 3   No 4   Autumn 2006

Notice of Inadvertent Duplicate Publication

The Urology Journal wishes to draw attention to a paper by Pourmand and 

colleagues, “Posttransplant Infectious Complications: A Prospective Study on 

142 Kidney Allograft Recipients,” which was published in volume 3, number 

1 (winter 2006) of  the journal, that is for the most part similar to an article 

by the same authors, entitled “Post-transplant Infectious Complications in 

Iranian Kidney Recipients: A Prospective Study on 142 Patients”, published in 

the Journal of  School of  Public Health and Institute of  Public Health Research 2006;4:

2 (Persian). 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. The two journals were unaware 

of  the other publication. It should be noted that the Urology Journal’s policy is not 

to consider any manuscript published or under consideration in another journal 

regardless of  the language. Secondary publication would be accepted only when 

the editors of  the two journals are informed and agree due to a reasonable aim. 

Urol J (Tehran). 2006;4:262. 

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