Unintentional plagiarism in publishing

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 Number of publications and their quoting are measures of scientist success while unpublished researches are invisible to the scientific community, and as such nonexistent.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

Unintentional Plagiarism: The Price For Ignoring Literature Search.

In the April 2015 issue of IJPP, an article was published by Raj Kapoor et al on the relevance of the level of the heart in sphygmomanometry (1). The authors must have put in considerable effort in conceptualizing, experimenting and writing the article which addresses a misconception that is rampant among physicians but while they toiled on the manuscript, little did they know that it was merel...

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

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 ...

Salami publishing as an example of plagiarism: letter to the editor

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