Editorial: Plagiarism: Words and Ideas

Plagiarism: Words and Ideas

Plagiarism is a crime against academy. It deceives readers, hurts plagiarized authors, and gets the plagiarist undeserved benefits. However, even though these arguments do show that copying other people's intellectual contribution is wrong, they do not apply to the copying of words. Copying a few sentences that contain no original idea (e.g. in the introduction) is of marginal importance compar...

Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas?

Plagiarism refers to the act of “appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit” (1). Most academic researchers reach a consensus that plagiarism is a serious breach of publication ethics (2). Plagiarism has different forms but can be categorized into two general distinct categories – plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of text (verbatim)....

Editorial Article Plagiarism in Scientific Publications

Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism

Editorial Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Contraction: New Perspectives and Ideas

1Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the MUHC, Centre for Translational Biology, Montreal, QC, Canada H4A 3J1 2A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, FEB RAS, Vladivostok 690041, Russia 3Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK 4Department of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of ...