Romanian scientists fight plagiarism

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Turning to Turnitin to Fight Plagiarism among University Students

This paper reports on a pilot project of the Turnitin plagiarism detection software, which was implemented to determine the impact of the software on the level of plagiarism among University of Botswana (UB) students. Students’ assignments were first submitted to the software without their knowledge so as to gauge their level of plagiarism. The results recorded the average level of plagiarism a...

Scientists Admitting to Plagiarism: A Meta-analysis of Surveys

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of anonymous surveys asking scientists whether they ever committed various forms of plagiarism. From May to December 2011 we searched 35 bibliographic databases, five grey literature databases and hand searched nine journals for potentially relevant studies. We included surveys that asked scientists if, in a given recall period, they had commit...

Scientists invited to join teachers in fight against scientific illiteracy.

As a tropical disease specialist, AAAS member Barbara Sina has traveled the world from Brazil to Kenya to the Netherlands. But few ofher trips have proved more satisfying than the visits she's paid closer to home-to Margaret Brent Middle School in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland. It was there that Sina got her first taste of teaching science to adolescents as a partner to 7thgrade teacher Ton...

Plagiarism.