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...

introduction: plagiarism damages the scientific products. its effects on sciences producer, such as manufacturers, scientists, authors and the others is that they will not desire to write anymore. furthermore, research result is so important in medical sciences, because they are dealing with human life. therefore, this study aimed to identify the methods and types of crime in plagiarism. method...

Prevention and detection of plagiarism have formed the basis for many research projects, but student perceptions on plagiarism are arguably not well understood, and this is particularly true in the computing disciplines. This paper considers two aspects of the student experience, (i) the types of plagiaristic activity that students engage in, and (ii) the specific understanding of what plagiari...

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...

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...

In the age of information technology intellectual property becomes especially valuable. This is one of the causes why the cases of the plagiarism appear more frequently in all vital sectors. Due to that, there is a growing need for different instruments for the protection and verification of copyright for finding plagiarism. Before checking the document for plagiarism, reviewing algorithms and ...

Plagiarism causes a serious concern in scientific literature. I distinguish two types of plagiarism. What is routinely highlighted and discussed is the reprehensible type of stealing another author's ideas and words. This type I categorize as "heterotrophic" plagiarism. A more prevalent and less-discussed type of plagiarism is the verbatim use of same sentences repetitively by authors in their ...

The task of text alignment corpus construction at PAN 2015 competition consists of preparing a plagiarism corpus so that it can provide various obfuscation types and versatile obfuscation degrees. Meanwhile, its format and metadata structure should follow previous PAN plagiarism corpora. In this paper, we describe our approach for construction of a monolingual Persian plagiarism corpus that can...

This paper describes how a Persian text alignment corpus was constructed to evaluate plagiarism detection systems. This corpus is in PAN format and contains 11,089 documents and more than 11,603 plagiarism cases. Efforts were made to simulate various types of plagiarism manually, semi-automatically, or automatically in this large-scale corpus.

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...