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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urol Oncol. 2011 Jan–Feb;29(1):95–99. doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2010.09.016

Figure 1.

Figure 1

In 2008 there were 4.1 new highly similar pairs of manuscripts per 1,000 published papers in Medline and deposited in the Déjà vu database. This is a major decline that has taken place in the last 2 years. One could speculate on a number of reasons, including fear of detection by would-be perpetrators, but whatever the cause, the problem is getting better but it is still significant in size.