A number of articles and news items have brought the issue of plagiarism into focus recently. Last week, a short paper in Science provided an update on the research by Harold Garner and his colleagues that was previously reported in Nature News, and has since been commented on in a number of places... READ MORE>>
EDITORIALJournal of Cancer Research and Clinical OncologyK. Höffken and H. GabbertWhen we were young scientists we heard that: ‘‘games authors play’’ and learned that results of scientific work was published by the same authors in different order in different journals. However, the content of the pu... READ MORE>>
Editorial Article Peter R. Mason Biomedical Research & Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe J Infect Developing Countries 2009; 3(1):1-4. >>> READ MORE>>
EditorialNature Photonics 3, 237 (2009)doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.48Accountability of coauthors for scientific misconduct, guest authorship and deliberate or negligent citation plagiarism, highlight the need for accurate author contribution statements.>>> READ MORE>>
SCIENCE, 6 March 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5919, pp. 1293 - 1294 DOI: 10.1126/science.1167408Tara C. Long,1 Mounir Errami,2 Angela C. George,1 Zhaohui Sun,2 Harold R. Garner1,2*The peer-review process is the best mechanism to ensure the high quality of scientific publications. However, recent studies have... READ MORE>>
Data mining reveals too many similarities between papers By Janet Raloff Web edition : Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Enlarge IS THIS PLAGIARISM? Yellow highlights aspects of this paper that copy material published in a previous paper — by other authors. UT Southwestern Medical CenterIf copyi... READ MORE>>
EditorialNature Immunology 10, 225 (2009)doi:10.1038/ni0309-225Journals are taking steps to stem of the practice of plagiarism.Have you ever experienced a sense of déjà vu after reading a colleague's manuscript or researching a topic of interest? A paragraph or entire section sounds eerily familiar—... READ MORE>>
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