Two management journals from the same publisher have retracted a pair of articles for taking "models, samples, and results" from each other and earlier work. "Workplace bullying and intention to leave: a moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and supervisory support" was published online July 8, 2020, in Employee Relations and has been cited 35 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. The other article, "Resistance to change and turnover intention: a moderated mediation model of burnout and perceived organizational support," appeared online July 29, 2020, in the Journal of Organizational Change Management (JOCM) and has been cited 59 times.

A tip from an anonymous account sent in November 2024 to Retraction Watch, sleuth Elisabeth Bik, and others called out duplications in the papers. Bik then posted the two articles on PubPeer in November 2024, noting several identical sets of tables between the papers, despite the works investigating survey data on different topics from different populations.

The retraction notice for the JOCM article, posted December 23, 2024, acknowledged the similarities. The notice for the Employee Relations article, published December 24, cites overlap with yet another paper coauthored by Srivastava — a 2019 article on organizational citizenship behavior that appeared in Vision.

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