Leila MeyerTurnitin, a company that develops plagiarism detection and prevention tools, has released the results of a survey that identifies 10 types of plagiarism and ranks them according to frequency and severity. The survey included educators at the middle and high school and post-secondary l... READ MORE>>
It does seem that plagiarism is not considered a very serious matter at Universities in Pakistan.Karachi University has found a novel way to drop plagiarism charges against 4 academics against whom plagiarism charges were established by an independent committee. They charged the academics with mi... READ MORE>>
by Gretchen VogeBERLIN—German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan is facing allegations that she plagiarized parts of her dissertation, published in 1980. A Web site, called schavanplag (in German) has listed 56 incidents in which the anonymous accuser says Sch... READ MORE>>
By David Cyranoski of Nature magazineChina's roughly 5,300 home-grown journals have been a receptacle for much of the nation's research that has resulted from misconductThe China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in Beijing has taken the lead among the country's publishers in trying t... READ MORE>>
By CARL ZIMMER In the fall of 2010, Dr. Ferric C. Fang made an unsettling discovery. Dr. Fang, who is editor in chief of the journal Infection and Immunity, found that one of his authors had doctored several papers. It was a new experience for him. “Pri... READ MORE>>
Nature 484, 141 (12 April 2012), doi:10.1038/484141bThe plagiarism police deserve thanks for defending the honour of the PhD.Last week, Hungary's President Pál Schmitt was forced to resign because of plagiarism detected in his 1992 PhD thesis on physical education. Tivadar Tulassay, rector o... READ MORE>>
Nigel Hawkes Suddenly, everybody’s saying it: the scientific and medical literature is riddled with poor studies, irreproducible results, concealed data and sloppy mistakes.Since these studies underpin a huge number of government policies, from health to the environment, that’s a serious charge.Le... READ MORE>>
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