AIM To determine the prevalence of plagiarism among medical students in writing essays. METHODS During two academic years, 198 second year medical students attending Medical Informatics course wrote an essay on one of four offered articles. Two of the source articles were available in an electronic form and two in printed form. Two (one electronic and one paper article) were considered less c...

Purpose This research work informs about plagiarism and the consequences of anti-plagiarism services such as Turnitin.com, iThenticate, and PlagiarismDetect.com, in detecting the most recent cheatings in academic and other writings. Design/methodology/approach The most important approach is plagiarism prevention and finding proper solutions for detecting more complex kinds of plagiarisms throug...

Projects play an important role in most Computer Science courses. Plagiarism in projects, how to discourage it and how to detect it have always been of concern to instructors. In this paper, we propose a technique for designing projects to detect and prevent plagiarism, called polymorphic projects. We also catalog several other techniques currently used to address plagiarism in projects.

The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) surveyed its leaders to determine their perceptions of the prevalence of problematic research practices and the possible roles AADR should play in promoting scientific integrity. Seventy-six of the 98 program chairs and Association officers (1990-1995) surveyed responded. In general, these respondents did not think that serious misconduct or s...

Research on academic plagiarism has typically focused on students as the perpetrators of unethical behaviors, and less attention has been paid to academic researchers as likely candidates for such behaviors. We examined 279 papers presented at the International Management division of the 2009 Academy of Management conference for the purpose of studying plagiarism among academics. Results showed...

This updated and revised paper gives an overview of my PhD research. It focuses on two newly developed approaches. Citation Proximity Analysis (CPA) allows the identification of related work by analyzing the co-occurrence of citations within documents. In contrast to co-citation analysis various factors, such as the proximity of citations to each other, are taken into account. The second approa...

The task of plagiarism detection entails two main steps, suspicious candidate retrieval and pairwise document similarity analysis also called detailed analysis. In this paper we focus on the second subtask. We will report our monolingual plagiarism detection system which is used to process the Persian plagiarism corpus for the task of pairwise document similarity. To retrieve plagiarised passag...

The topic of plagiarism in academia is as old as academia itself. It has, however, received renewed interest as a result of the recent technological advances that make it easier to cheat. This situation has also sparked the development of sophisticated tools that can be applied to detect cheating. Much has been written to clarify what constitutes plagiarism in academia and what should be done t...

Groups of individuals often work together to generate solutions to a problem. Subsequently, one member of the group can plagiarise another either by recalling that person's idea as their own (recall-own plagiarism), or by generating a novel solution that duplicates a previous idea (generate-new plagiarism). The current study examines the extent to which these forms of plagiarism are influenced ...