Timeline for A manuscript I refereed gave me an idea for a paper, not sure how to proceed
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| Feb 14, 2016 at 1:51 | comment | added | Blaisorblade | To be sure: in related situations, I've wondered whether there's a conflict of interest pushing the author to reject the paper to publish his one. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 18:00 | vote | accept | Koldito | ||
| Jun 13, 2014 at 17:28 | answer | added | user40480 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 17:00 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @JackAidley: There is also the ethical concern that the OP gave what amounts to a negative evaluation of the paper (a measured one, but the way these things work one presumes the journal will not publish it), but at the same time the paper has turned out to be -- somewhat indirectly -- of real value to him. I think his instinct of inquiring how to behave honorably here is a good one. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 16:11 | history | edited | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2014 at 16:01 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 76 | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | Bill Barth | The issue lies in the idea that you can't cite to a non-public source. If there were a pre-print on the web, you can cite to that as the source of your inspiration even if the pre-print turned out to be wrong. On the other hand, you have a duty of confidence in an article you receive for review. It doesn't really exist outside the review process. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | Jack Aidley | I'm not sure why you think this is a special case? Had you read the paper in pre-print and come up with the same idea would you have a problem then? I'm not sure where you think the issue lies? | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 14:15 | comment | added | Arno | Is there a preprint of the paper available, or any other way how you could have learnt about their work beside being a referee? | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 13:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/477441523907194881 | ||
| Jun 13, 2014 at 13:08 | answer | added | brechmos | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 13:07 | history | edited | ff524 |
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| Jun 13, 2014 at 12:49 | history | asked | Koldito | CC BY-SA 3.0 |