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...

E-learning is becoming an increasingly common if not an essential strategy in academic institutions and the Faculty of Logistics of the University of Maribor, Slovenia is no exception. However, this new teaching mode also brings about new forms of academic misconduct, which is the main topic of this paper. The first proposed methodological approach was to take into account students’ general exp...

The goal of this study was to assess attitude towards plagiarism in faculty members of Medical School at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. One hundred and twenty medical faculty members of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. They were asked to answer to valid and reliable Persian version of attitude towards plagiarism questionnaire. Attitude t...

In this paper we have done an overview of effective plagiarism detection methods that have been used for natural language text plagiarism detection, external plagiarism detection, clustering-base plagiarism detection and some methods used in code source plagiarism detection, also we have done a comparison between five of software used for textual plagiarism detection: (PlagAware, PlagScan, Chec...

Abstract Despite increasing scholarly interest in tertiary student perceptions of plagiarism, very little is known about those held by postgraduate (PG) students, although differences between undergraduate (UG) and PG students relate to both their characteristics the demands studies. Furthermore, there a dearth research within context international education, where managing plagiarism seen as m...

With the advent of the internet and easy access to digital libraries, plagiarism has become a major issue. Applying search engines is one of the plagiarism detection techniques that converts plagiarism patterns to search queries. Generating suitable queries is the heart of this technique and existing methods suffer from lack of producing accurate queries, Precision and Speed of retrieved result...

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...

Although paraphrasing is the linguistic mechanism underlying many plagiarism cases, little attention has been paid to its analysis in the framework of automatic plagiarism detection. Therefore, state-of-the-art plagiarism detectors find it difficult to detect cases of paraphrase plagiarism. In this article, we analyze the relationship between paraphrasing and plagiarism, paying special attentio...

There is a staggering upsurge in the incidence of plagiarism of scientific literature. Literature shows divergent views about the factors that make plagiarism reprehensible. This review explores the causes and remedies for the perennial academic problem of plagiarism. Data sources were searched for full text English language articles published from 2000 to 2015. Data selection was done using me...