Can we keep , our published research paper in thesis as a chapter and How much self plagiarism is allowed for Ph.D thesis ?
Renjit
No. The journal holds just the copyrights not the authorship. If you are a real author of your text - you remain always the author. I do not know of the country where you cannot republish (as a doctoral thesis) the same your text – use large portions of the same your previously published text for which you transferred the copyrights to the journal. You have to mention of course that you published those portions of the text and to say who is the owner of the copyrights. Normally a PhD thesis is published in just a few examples. If you or somebody else then want to really publish your thesis (to sell it), well then – you need to obtain a permition from the journal.
There are of course casses where authorship is sold or transfered, but those are different things.
You can have a look at the following link:
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12342/self-plagiarism-in-phd-thesis
Self plagiarism is copying the researcher/authors' own creation, therefore one should properly acknowledge through references or notes; there should not be any issue for not accepting the work included in the thesis as chapter. Of course PhD theses should include new knowledge other than existing or already published.
No, the question does not apply. The PhD thesis is about one's own work. Some local rulles may bee applied, but the PhD thesis do not have to contain the first time published results.
Why do you want to keep your own published work without a citation? give proper citation to whatever the items you taken from others and your own. people have some misconceptions 15 or 20 percent of plagiarism is allowed. what I firmly belive is "zero telorence to plagiarism"
Sorry, I was in hurry and could not offer more complete answer. Plagiarism concerns text or ideas which origin is not disclosed and that is presented as original work. So if you would cite the sources, all is fine. The question is probably whether we can repeat our, in a PhD thesis, own words or some ideas without giving primary sources where we are also the authors. I think if we just write that “some sections of this work were published (by you) previously” and if the works are cited somewhere in the thesis, this will be enough even if you would be repeating your own texts extensively. Some universities demand that the work or some sections of the work have not been published before. Then, you should obey those rules, of course, although I think those rules are not fair. In principle, you should be permitted to present your work for the PhD title even if the work was published before.
Hi,
there is a type of dissertation that is actually based on three published papers. It is not practiced in all universities, but it does exist in several ones. This is not called plagiarism, because it is formally recognized as part of the thesis. I think that you may use parts of your previous work as a self-citation, or change it somewhat and then add it to your thesis. As a whole, if your thesis presents original results, there should not be any problem.
No, this is not the point, sorry. Plagiarism is presenting some previously published works / ideas without CITING the source - own or of somebody else. If you cite, all is fine. But some Universities do not accept previously published work to be presented as a PhD thesis. Majority permit "cumulative works" to be presented as thesis, but obviously all of this is your work.
I fully agree with Mr. Dragan Pavlovic latest views. In our country, the core of the work is required to be published.
As the "typical" PhD thesis is the result of the work of some years, it is not unusual that partial results have been published previously. As far as these publications are your work, there is no principal objection from the ethical aspect to "re-use" them.
But there is a more practical objection: would you really want to annoy the reader? I would not judge upon the quality of anything by the number of pages but by "content". Thus I'd consider an an abbreviated summary of previously published work (plus the citation) usually more appropriate. Or - maybe - an updated version: during ongoing work, previous results may appear in a different light when re-viewed later.
My summary: it depends on the individual case. But in most cases I'd advice against a 1:1 copy.
After publication of an article in a journal, the copy right of those article will automatically goes to the publisher(See the articles in IEEE Transactions,Springer, Elsvier etc. a cpyright symbol is on the title page).That means after publication, the owner of article is not the author but the publisher. So in my opinion,it is a type of copyright infringement.
Please see the references from iThenticate
http://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/bid/65061/What-Is-Self-Plagiarism-and-How-to-Avoid-It#.WkqqXLeWbIU
http://www.ithenticate.com/resources/papers/ethics-of-self-plagiarism
But there is an exceptional case for this.
Some journals are having a policy that ,they will publish the article with copyright to the author itself.Such cases it is not an infringement.
Renjit
No. The journal holds just the copyrights not the authorship. If you are a real author of your text - you remain always the author. I do not know of the country where you cannot republish (as a doctoral thesis) the same your text – use large portions of the same your previously published text for which you transferred the copyrights to the journal. You have to mention of course that you published those portions of the text and to say who is the owner of the copyrights. Normally a PhD thesis is published in just a few examples. If you or somebody else then want to really publish your thesis (to sell it), well then – you need to obtain a permition from the journal.
There are of course casses where authorship is sold or transfered, but those are different things.
You can not refer any publication on your own Ph D research work in the text of your thesis as per the rules of many universities.
But you have to add a list of at least 2- 3 publications from your Ph D research work, otherwise your thesis will not be evaluated - as per rule of some universities.
Some university demand addition of copy of such Ph D work derived publications at a separate part of the thesis before final submission of it.
Every university have their own logic.
In some Universities a PhD is a compilation of at least 3 or 4 of your published work. To compose your thesis, you write around those published works and come up with a rounded thesis
Plagiarism and self Plagiarism are the same. You can't copy, but you can use your work in thesis as you are using other's work.
Once you complete your thesis, you can publish it. It will not come under Plagiarism.
Re-producing already published work as PhD thesis is purely Plagiarism.
Self citation is another issue.
I utterly agree with the submissions of Drs. Nafees Mohammad and Borden Mushonga.
Okay, we have some controversies!
In principle, each University is sovereign, but this does not mean that what a University decides is just. If a student is the owner of some idea or of some text (s/he published the idea or the text), s/he will use it as a property with all rights on that property. On the other hand a journal may reject to publish – because the journal has also all freedoms to decide. However, a University may impose that the thesis cannot contain work that does not represent actual, relevant or sufficiently recent (or earlier published) scientific activity of a student. But, if somebody republishes some text and explicitly or implicitly declares it as a new text, this will be called by some to be “self plagiarism”. I do not agree. Indeed, if I want to repeat my own words, I am free to repeat them without stating how many times in the past and where, I uttered them for the first time! An editor may want that I state this, but this is hers/his problem, not mine. And certainly not plagiarism!
There is a discussion on plagiarism that is linked to this thread:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_plagiarism_especially_when_it_is_related_to_high_Government_officials?view=5ae4bb12e5d99ef44976af26
I think that you can use your Published papers which are related to your thesis work and you are the 1st author in that. Because many universities have norms to publish 2-3 papers to award PhD thesis. In that case your chapters will be your published papers. You would have already rephrased your text in your published papers to remove self plagiarism. After publishing 3-4 papers, there will be no scope to rephrase the text anymore.
I have seen most of the Researchers to Direct use their published papers as a chapter in their PhD thesis. And why not, ultimately you are publishing papers to get authenticate your thesis work. If you can't use this in your PhD thesis, why you will publish?
how about this case.. if a student (Person-x) publish thesis, then his supervisor (person Y) send the same thesis to his collaborator(person Z) to publish papers from this thesis. The person Z publish a paper in which he appears as first author and the student(person X) as co-author in that paper. the paper have 40% similirity with that thesis of the student(personX). is this plagiarism..please guide in this issue
Most often the following rule applies: The first author is the “author of the text“ while the other co-authors are colaborators most often involved with the performance of the research and just occasionaly involved in the text editing. Therefore the first author should not reproduce a substantial amount of text writen by other people (even if they are co-authors) without citing the original author. I think that this answers your question.
As I wrote earlier, if the first author is the same person whose text is reproduced, the citation may be given, although even if not given, would not be problematic.
The logic behind is simple: the first author is the person that wrote the text. Sometimes the first author even did not do any experiments or did not do anything at all except of writting. S/he remains the first author!
plagiarism is not allowed, while similirity of less than 16 or even 18 is allowed in our poliecy, however it depends on organization poliecy.
Don't get idea as it is of previous work. Plaraphase the same idea with acknowledgement.
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