The topic of plagiarism in academia is as old as academia itself. It has, however, received renewed interest as a result of the recent technological advances that make it easier to cheat. This situation has also sparked the development of sophisticated tools that can be applied to detect cheating. Much has been written to clarify what constitutes plagiarism in academia and what should be done t...

Research on academic plagiarism has typically focused on students as the perpetrators of unethical behaviors, and less attention has been paid to academic researchers as likely candidates for such behaviors. We examined 279 papers presented at the International Management division of the 2009 Academy of Management conference for the purpose of studying plagiarism among academics. Results showed...

Groups of individuals often work together to generate solutions to a problem. Subsequently, one member of the group can plagiarise another either by recalling that person's idea as their own (recall-own plagiarism), or by generating a novel solution that duplicates a previous idea (generate-new plagiarism). The current study examines the extent to which these forms of plagiarism are influenced ...

Plagiarism has become one of the most concerned problems since there are several kinds of plagiarism that are hard to detect. Extrinsic plagiarism is now being handled well, but intrinsic plagiarism is not. Intrinsic plagiarism detection is being distracted by the mixed up structure and the using of another word which have the same meaning. Several methods have been research to handle this prob...

For a journal article of quality, an excellent concept and significant results are basic requirements. However, a more important factor is how to make a coherent argument. To explain the article's subject, scientific and logical discourse is necessary. In addition, appropriate quotations are needed to support the key claims because quotations situate the claims of the article within a community...

Most developed countries have extensive guidelines about research integrity, which reflects a global attempt to harmonize policies for handling research misconduct. For the editors and readers of English-language international journals, the question of plagiarism is of particular concern. Here, we look at the perception of plagiarism among Brazilian scientists. Our results suggest that the conc...

Purpose – Libraries and scholars face more frequent problems with and decisions about plagiarism than in the past. This article aims to look at complex cases where plagiarism may have occurred. Design/methodology/approach – The method is anthropological and looks at specific cases, in which the situations are real but the actors have been fictionalised to protect identities. Findings – Plagiari...

Plagiarism detection is a growing need among educational institutions and solutions for different purposes exist. An important field in this direction is detecting cases of source-code plagiarism. In this paper, we present the tool Kato for supporting the detection of this kind of plagiarism in the area of answer-set programming (ASP). Currently, the tool is implemented for DLV programs but it ...

This paper overviews 15 plagiarism detectors that have been evaluated within the fourth international competition on plagiarism detection at PAN’12. We report on their performances for two sub-tasks of external plagiarism detection: candidate document retrieval and detailed document comparison. Furthermore, we introduce the PAN plagiarism corpus 2012, the TIRA experimentation platform, and the ...

Plagiarism involves reproducing the existing information in modified format or sometimes the original document as it is. This is quiet common among students, researchers and academicians. This has made some strong influence on research community and awareness among academic peoples to prevent such a kind of malpractice. Though there exits some commercial tools to detect plagiarism, still plagia...