Plagiarism in scientific publications

Editorial Article Plagiarism in Scientific Publications

Plagiarism in scientific research and publications and how to prevent it

Quality is assessed on the basis of adequate evidence, while best results of the research are accomplished through scientific knowledge. Information  contained in a scientific work must always be based on scientific evidence. Guidelines for genuine scientific research should be designed based on real  results. Dynamic research and use correct methods of scientific work must originate from eve...

Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing

Scientific publishing is the ultimate product of scientist work. Number of publications and their quoting are measures of scientist success while unpublished researches are invisible to the scientific community, and as such nonexistent. Researchers in their work rely on their predecessors, while the extent of use of one scientist work, as a source for the work of other authors is the verificati...

Plagiarism in scientific writing.

Although it is not possible with certainty to know the exact date of the first scientific report, with scientific and technological contribution the ancient civilizations like China, Greece, and Babylon can be attributed to the earliest scientific reporting. 1 During the era of ancient Greek, these scientific reporting and communications took a different turn, shifting from oral to written comm...

Plagiarism Detection in Open Access Publications

The idea of Open Access publication is to provide free access to research articles on the Internet. In recent years, many research institutions as well as libraries worldwide started to provide all or parts of their publications following the paradigm of Open Access. Free access, however, bears the risk that the content may be misused without acknowledging the work of the original authors which...