Plagiarism may take place in any scientific journals despite currently employed anti-plagiarism tools. The absence of widely acceptable definitions of research misconduct and reliance solely on similarity checks do not allow journal editors to prevent most complex cases of recycling of scientific information and wasteful, or 'predatory,' publishing. This article analyses Scopus-based publicatio...

Academically dishonest behavior, such as cheating and plagiarism, presents a challenge on college campuses, exacerbated by new technologies which have increased the ease of academic dishonesty. The first section below provides material for promoting academic integrity in higher education. The second section focuses on resources for preventing and dealing with plagiarism in on-campus and online ...

Source code plagiarism detection is a problem that has been addressed several times before; and several tools have been developed for that purpose. In this research project we investigated a set of possible disguises that can be mechanically applied to plagiarized source code to defeat plagiarism detection tools. We propose a preprocessor to be used with existing plagiarism detection tools to "...

The paper investigates methods for intrinsic plagiarism detection and author diarization. We developed a plagiarism detection method based on constructing an author style function from features of text sentences and detecting outliers. We adapted the method for the diarization problem by segmenting author style statistics on text parts, which correspond to different authors. Both methods were t...

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The MOOC’s (Massive open online classes) have ushered in a new era of learning overcoming the boundaries of time and geography to provide high quality education to masses who cannot afford university education. The major drawback however is that although they have best tried to capture classroom environment but facets such as teacher-student interaction and the usefulness of assignments as a so...

Plagiarism has been acknowledged to be a growing problem for Higher Education Institutions, and indeed in other areas of society. Various reasons have been advanced to explain the growth of this problem, including improvements in IT in general and the Internet in particular, along with changed attitudes towards study amongst some of today’s students. Improved access to the Internet, combined wi...

This paper investigates the problem of distinguishing between original and rewritten text materials, with focus on the application of plagiarism detection. The hypothesis is that original texts and rewritten texts exhibit significant and measurable differences, and that these can be captured through statistical and linguistic indicators. We propose and analyse a number of these indicators (incl...

The present paper introduces the first corpus for the evaluation of Arabic intrinsic plagiarism detection. The corpus consists of 1024 artificial suspicious documents in which 2833 plagiarism cases have been inserted automatically from source documents.

Plagiarism is a form of cheating, by which one presents as her/his work, what others have done. It may be severely punished, and could cause serious problems later in life. Self-plagiarism is also possible. Plagiarism, its consequences and and how to avoid it are discussed further below. 1 Plagiarism: What is it? Plagiarism often involves dishonest use of work done by others (including work in ...