the goal of this study was to assess attitude towards plagiarism in faculty members of medical school at tehran university of medical sciences. one hundred and twenty medical faculty members of tehran university of medical sciences were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. they were asked to answer to valid and reliable persian version of attitude towards plagiarism questionnaire. attitude t...

plagiarism refers to “adopting someone else’s words, work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. it is potentially considered as the most prevalent form of scientific dishonesty discovered in research papers. the present review aims to provide a thorough account of plagiarism to build awareness about all dimensions of plagiarism.the key words “plagiarism”, “types”, “detection” and “conseq...

background: this study was conducted to develop a questionnaire in order to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of the faculty members and students toward plagiarism. methods: a kap study was conducted from june to october 2011 enrolling 390 volunteers anonymously (response rate 96%). the questionnaire included the following four parts: (a) general characteristics like gender, acade...

The goal of this study was to assess attitude towards plagiarism in faculty members of Medical School at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. One hundred and twenty medical faculty members of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. They were asked to answer to valid and reliable Persian version of attitude towards plagiarism questionnaire. Attitude t...

In this paper we have done an overview of effective plagiarism detection methods that have been used for natural language text plagiarism detection, external plagiarism detection, clustering-base plagiarism detection and some methods used in code source plagiarism detection, also we have done a comparison between five of software used for textual plagiarism detection: (PlagAware, PlagScan, Chec...

Providing effective methods of identification of high-obfuscation plagiarism seeds presents a significant research problem in the field of plagiarism detection. The conventional methods of plagiarism detection are based on single type of features to capture plagiarism seeds. But for high-obfuscation plagiarism detection, these single type features are not sufficient for identifying the plagiari...

Although paraphrasing is the linguistic mechanism underlying many plagiarism cases, little attention has been paid to its analysis in the framework of automatic plagiarism detection. Therefore, state-of-the-art plagiarism detectors find it difficult to detect cases of paraphrase plagiarism. In this article, we analyze the relationship between paraphrasing and plagiarism, paying special attentio...

There is a staggering upsurge in the incidence of plagiarism of scientific literature. Literature shows divergent views about the factors that make plagiarism reprehensible. This review explores the causes and remedies for the perennial academic problem of plagiarism. Data sources were searched for full text English language articles published from 2000 to 2015. Data selection was done using me...

Plagiarism is the “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author's “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism can also be hidden when text is translated from one language to another with no credit to the version, which is called crosslanguage plagiarism. Plagiarism is widely found in text, document...