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Plagiarism: text-matching program offers an answer - Correspondance: NATURE
John Bechhoefer1The removal of almost 70 papers from the arXiv server on suspicion of plagiarism is dismaying (Nature 449, 8; doi:10.1038/449008b 2007). But, in a similar way to that currently being tested by the cooperative group of publishers CrossRef ('Academic accused of living on borrowed lines... READ MORE>>
Plagiarism? No, we're just borrowing better English - Correspondance: NATURE
Ihsan Yilmaz1 The accusations made by arXiv that my colleagues and I have plagiarized the works of others, reported in your News story 'Turkish physicists face accusations of plagiarism' (Nature 449, 8; doi:10.1038/449008b 2007) are upsetting and unfair. It's inappropriate to single out my colleague... READ MORE>>
Academic Dishonesty and Graduate Students
CEW Brownbag Discussion • Research on academic dishonesty among graduate students is comparatively limited. Most studies of academic dishonesty in higher education have tended to focus on undergraduates or on students as a whole, without distinguishing between graduate and undergraduate students. As... READ MORE>>
A Case of Plagiarism in the Physics Preprint Server arXiv.
Alex Bienkowski One of the more interesting developments in web-based scientific publishing has been the growth of arXiv, a “preprint” server originally launched by Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos and now hosted at Cornell. The system was first called xxx, and the domain was high-energy physics. Later... READ MORE>>
Nearly there!
Chris Leonard Plagiarism & PMC Physics A There has been a lot of recent publicity on the Turkish plagiarism sandal which has affected arXiv and several high-profile physics journals recently. This has been an 'elephant in the room' of science publishing for some years now. Skillfully manipulated... READ MORE>>
The Scientist: Me First!
Glenn McGee The system of scientific authorship is in crisis. Two new rules could help make things right. READ MORE>>
Brane-world black holes and energy-momentum vector (removed from JHEP)
Mustafa Salti et al JHEP12(2006)078 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/078Mustafa Salti1, Oktay Aydogdu1 and Murat Korunur21 Department of Physics, Art and Science Faculty, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara-Turkey2Department of Physics, Faculty of Art and Science, Dicle University, 21280, D... READ MORE>>
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