Originality and plagiarism: a question of authorship in the academy.

Knowing that the expectation of the reader would be more than that of the text, I chose a broad title for this editorial. But my objective here is to initiate a reflection of disquiet, rather than to defend a finished thesis on the triad originality authorship plagiarism. This is simply because we have no universal definitions or concepts, unanimously accepted in this time and space, with all the biases of the various areas of knowledge and cultures. Thus, the difficulty in initiating by its essence compels us to reverse the natural order and analyze the deviation of virtue by the failure; namely, plagiarism as a tangible academic and scientific problem.