- O. Uplavici
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O. Uplavici was the fictitious author of the article About Dysentery (1887). Since this paper was cited by numerous authors, the name persisted in the scientific literature for fifty years.[1] The real author of the article was Czech professor and physician Jaroslav Hlava (1855—1924).[1]
This mistake was caused by bad translation - the name of author was written in small characters, and the translator mistook O ÚPLAVICI (About dysentery in Czech) for the name of the author and PŘEDBĚŽNÁ ZPRÁVA (preliminary report) for About Dysentery.
The mistake was corrected in 1939 by American physician Clifford Dobell, writing about the history of this mistake in the article "Dr. O. Uplavici (1887–1938)".[2]
References
- ^ a b Manwaring WH (1 March 1939). "Death of "Dr. O. Uplavici."". Calif West Med 50 (3): 201. PMC 1659886. PMID 18745068. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1659886.
- ^ Dobell C (1939). "Dr O. Uplavici (1887-1938)". Isis 30 (2): 268–72. doi:10.1086/347511. JSTOR 226292.
External links
- Garfield, Eugene (1990-10-08). "Journal Editors Awaken to the Impact of Citation Errors. How We Control Them at ISI" (PDF). Current Contents: 367, 369. http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v13p367y1990.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-23. (General article about mistakes in citation, with "O. Uplavici" as an example on page 3.)
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