Anti-plagiarism tools are currently used in a large number of institutions to perform an initial assessment of students’ essays, enabling an automated approach to the identification of plagiarised work. This paper presents evidence that students are moving from “copy and paste” plagiarism, which can be detected by anti-plagiarism software, to more complex forms of plagiarism using a variety of ...

The automated detection of plagiarism is an information retrieval task of increasing importance as the volume of readily accessible information on the web expands. A major shortcoming of current automated plagiarism detection approaches is their dependence on high character-based similarity. As a result, heavily disguised plagiarism forms, such as paraphrases, translated plagiarism, or structur...

Plagiarism remains at the top in terms of interest to the scientific community. In its many vicious forms, patchwork plagiarism is characterized by numerous unresolved issues and often passes "below the radar" of editors and reviewers. The problem of detecting the complexity of misconduct has been partially resolved by plagiarism detection software. However, interpretation of relevant reports i...

This paper aims to stimulate discussion about how editors should respond to plagiarism. Different types of plagiarism are described in terms of their: extent, originality of the copied material, context, referencing, intention, author seniority, and language. Journal responses to plagiarism are also described including: educating authors, contacting authors’ institutions, issuing corrections, a...

Self-plagiarism is a controversial issue in scientific writing and presentation of research data. Unlike plagiarism, self-plagiarism is difficult to interpret as intellectual theft under the justification that one cannot steal from oneself. However, academics are concerned, as self-plagiarized papers mislead readers, do not contribute to science, and bring undeserved credit to authors. As such,...

HTW Berlin Treskowallee 8 10318 Berlin [email protected] http://www.f4.htw-berlin.de/~weberwu Abstract There are numerous plagiarism detection software systems that claim to discover plagiarism of all sorts, given a digital text. This paper first discusses a typology of plagiarism, which makes clear that plagiarism is more than just an exact copy. Then a collection of 42 test cases in Germa...

Research is an original and systematic investigation undertaken to discover new facts and information about a phenomenon. However a variety of empirical and ethical issues are on the rise in academia, especially plagiarism is quickly becoming part of global educational and research culture. More and more students and researchers are turning to the Internet for cooked solutions and shortcuts for...

Recently, during the review process of submitted manuscripts, one of our journal reviewers informed me about a case of suspected plagiarism. I thanked the reviewer and checked the degree of copying and found blatant plagiarism. There was unattributed use of large portions of text from another source, including the abstract, materials and methods, and even the tables. According to the research e...

Plagiarism has become more common in both dental and medical communities. Most of the writers do not know that plagiarism is a serious problem. Plagiarism can range from simple dishonesty (minor copy paste/any discrepancy) to a more serious problem (major discrepancy/duplication of manuscript) when the authors do cut-copy-paste from the original source without giving adequate credit to the main...