Plagiarism, management, journal retraction and response by author′s institute

Plagiarism and Intertextuality: RA Authors’ Sociocultural Perceptions and Mainstream Practices

This study reports on research article (RA) authors’ definitional understanding and sociocultural perceptions of intertextuality and plagiarism in academic writing. To meet this end, a questionnaire, consisting of three sections, was constructed and emailed to Iranian RA authors who have published in leading international and local applied linguistics journals. The findings of the first two sec...

Plagiarism and Journal Editing

Sir, the recent article on “Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing” by Masic is very interesting [1]. Masic described cases of plagiarism and concluded that “There is a dilemma: who, on what basis (criteria, standards, rules), when and how should declare someone a plagiarist [1]” and also mentioned for the importance of informatics tool to determine plagiarism. Indeed, it is the role of the journa...

Plagiarism and Self plagiarism from the perspective of academic authors

This paper looks at the background and history of plagiarism and self plagiarism, reviews aspects of academic self plagiarism from the academic, the institution and publisher’s point of view and provides a handy check-list of the current definitions and requirements.

Retracted: A brief review of plagiarism in medical scientific research papers. By Mohammad Karami, Gholam Hassan Danaei. [Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research 2016:2(2):1-8]

The Editor and Publisher regretfully have to retract the following publication due to similar to a published article prepared by Rabab A.A. Mohammed et al. entitled Plagiarism in medical scientific research in Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences (2015) 10(1) 6-11. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this retraction to readers and authors of last published article.

Retraction of biased journal articles.