May 22, 2009

Plagiarism Sleuths

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 about the group's own tactics.>>>

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