Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing: Issues, Developments and Education

Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing: Issues, Developments and Education

Text-based plagiarism, or copying language from sources, has recently become an issue of growing concern in scientific publishing. Use of CrossCheck (a computational text-matching tool) by journals has sometimes exposed an unexpected amount of textual similarity between submissions and databases of scholarly literature. In this paper I provide an overview of the relevant literature, to examine ...

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 Number of publications and their quoting are measures of scientist success while unpublished researches are invisible to the scientific community, and as such nonexistent.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...

The perils of copy and paste: plagiarism in scientific publishing.

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...

Fairness in scientific publishing

Major changes are afoot in the world of academic publishing, exemplified by innovations in publishing platforms, new approaches to metrics, improvements in our approach to peer review, and a focus on developing and encouraging open access to scientific literature and data. The FAIR acronym recommends that authors and publishers should aim to make their output Findable, Accessible, Interoperable...