Published version of the Letter by Iorio before its withdrawal

JASIST published version

Legal threatenings lead to the retraction of the Letter to the Editor of JASIST

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Uncorrected proofs of the Letter-to-the-Editor to the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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Uncorrected proofs of the Letter-to-the-Editor to the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

After having been accepted for publication by B. Cronin, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, in January 2014 and after having been published as Early View on 28 April 2014, the Letter to the Editor by L. Iorio has been withdrawn by B. Cronin who changed his mind due to the pressures by  Ciufolini. The post-publication rejection letter by B. Cronin reads: “Gentlemen, 

It is clear that there exist between you a deep-rooted disagreement related to the matter of alleged pseudonymous publishing, one that, on reflection, I do not feel should be aired in the pages of JASIST.  You are both career physicists, active in the field and working in Italy.  Moreover, as best I can tell, you have actually co-authored papers on multiple occasions.  It, therefore, makes much more sense for your disagreement, whatever its origins and dimensions, to be discussed and arbitrated on locally by members of either the physics community or the Italian higher education system.  

The letter from Dr. Iorio has been removed from the JASIST (Early View) website and will not now be published in the Journal. 

Yours sincerely, 

Blaise Cronin”

Mr. Ciufolini, foaming with rage, rants and raves against Iorio in a fiery Open Letter to the Editor-in-Chief of the JASIST

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Screenshot from the CERN preprint server, Felici case

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Full text of the Letter to the Editor on the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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Full text of the Letter to the Editor on the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Letter to the Editor in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

From Google

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This screenshot captures the result of a search on Google performed on 23 December 2013 returning the September 2013 retraction comment by arXiv on the pseudonym “G. Forst” used by Mr. Ciufolini.

 

From LandofFree

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Here, another screenshot of the early retraction comment by arXiv, which lasted unaltered until Septmeber 2013

From IOP eprintweb

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This is a screenshot from the IOP eprintweb capturing the early retraction comment by arXiv, i.e. the one which lasted for years until September 2013.