EditorialNature Physics 5, 449 (2009)Fraud in science is difficult to spot immediately, but, as high-profile cases show, it does get found out. Tackling plagiarism is at least becoming an easier fight.IntroductionScientific misconduct comes in many forms. Fabrication lies at one extreme, but plagiar... READ MORE>>
Leonard Berlin Department of Radiology, Rush North Shore Medical Center, Skeletal Radiol (2009) 38:1–4, DOI 10.1007/s00256-008-0599-0 Who made me the genius I am today, Who’s the Professor that made me that way? One man deserves the credit, One man deserves the blame, And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... READ MORE>>
G. Thomas Couser Dear Student,When you got your paper back with a grade of F for plagiarism, you reacted in predictable fashion -- with indignant denial of any wrongdoing. You claimed “you cited everything” and denied that you had committed intentional plagiarism, or ever would.This response is a... READ MORE>>
It's a long-standing and crucial question that, as yet, remains unanswered: just how common is scientific misconduct? In the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh reports the first meta-analysis of surveys questioning scientists about their misbehavi... READ MORE>>
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel & Jackie Grom Science 22 May 2009: Vol. 324. no. 5930, pp. 1004 - 1007 A Texas group is trolling through publications worldwide hunting for signs of duplicated material. The thousands of articles they've flagged online raise questions about standards in publishing—and ab... READ MORE>>
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>>
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