Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas?
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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)....
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عنوان ژورنال: Croatian Medical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0353-9504,1332-8166
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2011.52.576