HTW Berlin Treskowallee 8 10318 Berlin [email protected] http://www.f4.htw-berlin.de/~weberwu Abstract There are numerous plagiarism detection software systems that claim to discover plagiarism of all sorts, given a digital text. This paper first discusses a typology of plagiarism, which makes clear that plagiarism is more than just an exact copy. Then a collection of 42 test cases in Germa...

Research is an original and systematic investigation undertaken to discover new facts and information about a phenomenon. However a variety of empirical and ethical issues are on the rise in academia, especially plagiarism is quickly becoming part of global educational and research culture. More and more students and researchers are turning to the Internet for cooked solutions and shortcuts for...

Recently, during the review process of submitted manuscripts, one of our journal reviewers informed me about a case of suspected plagiarism. I thanked the reviewer and checked the degree of copying and found blatant plagiarism. There was unattributed use of large portions of text from another source, including the abstract, materials and methods, and even the tables. According to the research e...

Plagiarism has become more common in both dental and medical communities. Most of the writers do not know that plagiarism is a serious problem. Plagiarism can range from simple dishonesty (minor copy paste/any discrepancy) to a more serious problem (major discrepancy/duplication of manuscript) when the authors do cut-copy-paste from the original source without giving adequate credit to the main...

Conflicting academic and cultural perspectives hinder international awareness of plagiarism and the development of policies and practices for dealing with it. Research into the extent of the problem currently and over time is needed to counter this. Two case studies are presented, analysing the self-justifications given by an habitual plagiarist, and the repeated plagiarism of a piece of plagia...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Scientific misconduct and academic dishonesty have become crucial issues in the field of medical research in recent years. They include fabrication, falsification, plagiarism and deception. plagiarism is the most common form which is derived from the Latin word " plagiare ...

Lots of researches have showed that plagiarism becomes a severe problem in higher education around the world, especially in programming learning for its essence. Therefore, an effective strategy for plagiarism surveillance in program learning is much essential. Some literature focus on code similarity algorithm and the related tools can help to deal with the tedious and time-consuming task of d...

The purpose of this survey was to investigate journal editors’ use of CrossCheck, powered by iThenticate, to detect plagiarism, and their attitude to potential plagiarism once discovered. A 22-question survey was sent to 3,305 recipients, primarily scholarly journal editors from Anglophone countries, and a reduced 10-question version to 607 editors from non-Anglophone countries. The response ra...