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closePartial overlap with previous research preprint not cited.
Posted by fgubellini on 27 Aug 2021 at 15:59 GMT
This study proposes an interesting analysis on LXG toxins and their role in Bacillus subtilis competition.
However I wonder how it is possible that the author did not even mention our preprint appeared in BioRxiv (Tassinari et al. doi 10.1101/2020.05.09.085852) in which PART of these results were already presented.
Notably the effect of the LXG toxin YxiD on the bacterial competition in a T7SS dependent manner it is amazingly overlapping with the previous research.
Even though still under the preprint form (partially linked to COVID-related delays) the BioRxiv paper has already been cited by 5 papers and it will be soon resubmitted for publication.
I wonder how to deal with this kind of situations: a discovery posted on-line in open access on May 2020 can really not be acknowledge in July 2021?
Kind regards.
Francesca Gubellini, PhD,
Institut Pasteur
France
RE: Partial overlap with previous research preprint not cited.
kkobayashi842 replied to fgubellini on 29 Aug 2021 at 04:26 GMT
Dear Dr. Gubellini,
I noticed your interesting BioRxiv paper. However, I did not cite it in my paper because it was a preprint. Whether or not to cite the preprints of other groups is not an easy decision. I know there is controversy but that was my decision at the time.
Kazuo Kobayashi, Ph D.