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Plagiarism: Are There Practical Ways to Avoid It?

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jopan.2010.11.005

1532-8473

Ioanna Tsiligianni, Thys van der Molen,

Ethics in Clinical Research

We have read with pleasure the article by Smith and Wren 1 Smith Jr., N. Wren K.R. Ethical and legal aspects part 2: Plagiarism—“What is it and how do I avoid it?”. J Perianesth Nurs. 2010; 25: 327-330 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar that covers extensively the plagiarism issue. Plagiarism and duplications have become increasing problems in scientific publications in the last few years. Expanding on the author’s thoughts, we would like to present easy ways to avoid it. Authors could easily fall into plagiarism during copy-paste procedures when they assess similar articles for their topic. In the case of self-plagiarism, sometimes when an expert writes a draft, the words comes out spontaneously with no intention of self-plagiarism. So in that way we have the paradox that although the draft represents the author’s thoughts, he has unintentionally plagiarized himself. Nowadays, there is a great variety of Internet sites that are used for plagiarism and duplication checking. Even the search engine Google through Google alert can detect plagiarism. These internet searches could make authors feel safe and prevent plagiarism and duplication. Most of these sites can easily identify plagiarism, even if it is self-plagiarism, although common phrases are overestimated. Further, most of them are free to use. Results can be obtained by simply typing in the text to search thousands of articles (eg, in Medline). The search will find articles in which plagiarism is suspected and even indicate in exactly which sentence the plagiarism occurs. Ethical and Legal Aspects Part 2: Plagiarism—“What Is It and How Do I Avoid It?”Journal of PeriAnesthesia NursingVol. 25Issue 5PreviewPLAGIARISM CONTINUES to receive attention in scientific literature and throughout academia. As the following journal excerpts illustrate, this problem occurs not only with inexperienced authors and professionals, but with seasoned scientists as well: Upon opening this issue in the journal, I regret that the first thing readers will see is a retraction of a paper [due to plagiarism] that we published in Volume 29:10 of the journal.1Significant sections of (the article submitted by F. J. Shihand) published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing (were) originally published in Qualitative Nursing Research…without adequate acknowledgement and without the permission of Knafe and Beitmeyer. Full-Text PDF