In order to maintain research integrity, plagiarism has to be given up. However, many people do not know they are committing plagiarism intentionally or unintentionally. How we can be more concerned about this issue?
Vijay had plagiarised the above from http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/engineering/ee/plagiarize.html ! It has now been removed by the Plagiarism Police.
I think it all comes down to personal integrity and honesty.. If i want to write an original paper, then i will have to work hard and not rely on copy-shake-past from other authors' work...
Regards, raza
@Jaya: Easy, Never trust anybody, and just Google a bit of the so-called "original post".
Yes, agree that its a big problem in the copy and paste era. Experienced teachers and peers can help in controlling the plagiarism as they can easily detect from the style and depth of the knowledge.
@Ian: i also use google for checking plagiarism on some of the student assignments.. i usually paste a paragraph in search and although not as sophisticated as turnitin etc. at least it can tell if something is simply copy-pasted from another online source or not...
You can quote someone by using quotation marks, and giving them credit.
Dear Mohammad
i suggest you a powerful software which distinguishes plagiraiarism details. You can copy your text or every text and monitor it
The software name Is Viper ..
Try it out
Can we propose to the computer industry to leverage technology by incorporating a meta tag into the copy and paste function that ensures that anything copied and pasted remembers where it was copied and pasted from?
Good conversation . Please carry on with more preventive and awareness tips.
@Mohammad: Vijay's initial plagiarised post to your question has now been zapped by the all Powerful Plagiarism Police!
@Maria. It does not check journals, but I recommend it as a first line of defense. I am putting my book through it, bit by bit to make sure I have not let anything slip through.
It is quite clever, in that it seems to submit the end of one sentence with the beginning of next. We could try the same trick with Scholar and Pubmed.
With the means proposed so far, you can only uncover plagiarism but not prevent it. You need a culture of anti-plagiarism in your community (academic and/or regional). As of today, there have been more than five high-ranking members of German governments (Federal and State) been convicted of plagiarism when writing down their doctoral theses. They were removed from office or stepped down because of public pressure, among them were the (1) Federal Defence Minister and the (2) Minister of Research and Technology (yes, she herself!). Currently under scrutiny is the (3) speaker of the Parliament (Bundestag), and all is being intensely followed by the public. Number (2) and (3) had written their theses before the Internet age, when it was quite difficult to spot plagiarism, but with today's tools - thanks, Ian and others, for laying them out to us - it can be a worthwhile effort to find results of such misconduct.
@Ian, You had suggested PubMed ! It is for bioemedical field primarily. Schoolar is widely known for all fields! Since You are well informed in this field, can You suggest some more , widely used web services for checking the plagiarism? Thanks in advance.
@Maria Maldonado Garcia suggested good service (Small SEO Tools) :)
Sincerely Yours,
Ljubomir Jacic
@Michael: Do not think that your country holds the monopoly on plagiarism!
@Ljubomir: Use the full text search facility of the journals in your field. Start with IEEE Xplore. Give it suspiciously well formed phrases from your student's work. Do not pay for any commercial services. They give you a false sense of security, based on inadequate databases. For example, they do not index IEEE.
@Maria: Click on the links to find what is happening. You will probably find that the names of your helpers are common names in your field (and they are not in quotes!). It will be more instructive for you to check your Introduction for phrases you have stolen from the Web.
Remember that SmallSEOTools is intended for Webmasters, not researchers, so it is only of use in looking for your lazy student plagiarisers.
@The Plagiarist: Find an old dusty book to plagiarise from!
@Maria: You really do not expect anybody to have put your thesis on the Web do you?
SmallSeoTools checker builds up from 0% original content (case unproven) to hopefully 100% original (Web) content. If I give it the original question at the top of this posting, it reports only 25% original content (the incorrect space comma) BECAUSE IT FINDS THIS QUESTION ON RG!
It is not a plagiarism checker because it does not look to see if you have given the citation and whether you have given the citation correctly
and does not look at journals and books. It is just a useful little tool incorporating a useful little technique for catching out lazy students (and bad WebMasters).
@Liana: Send this URL to your friend:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Plagiarism_is_now_becoming_a_serious_misconduct_prevailing_in_the_field_of_research_How_we_can_avoid_Plagiarism
@Maria: scholar.google.com has no built-in plagiarism checker. You have to feed it with suspect sentences. My suggestion was to feed it with half of one sentence and half of the next at a time. E.g. to check for copying of this very post of mine, give it: "feed it with suspect sentences. My suggestion was" (When I tried it, nothing was found, as I expected, because I had just composed that sentence pair, and they are not in any paper!). Do not send all your text. Just send stuff that feels suspicious.
@Vahid: Thank you for not plagiarising. Sadly, however, your source is wrong and misleading!
-Paraphrasing will NOT avoid plagiarism. You have still to cite any material that you paraphrase.
-Citing: This is simply the ONLY way to avoid plagiarism, and is the correct answer to Mohammad's original question.
-Citing paraphrases: This is NO different to citing quotes. Why should there be any difference? Where page numbers are available, they should always be given so that the source can be verified quickly.
you are correct....
two or more persons may think alike from corners of the world... we cannot say their thoughts are a sort of plagiarism.
It is revealed that the people who come forward & publish it becomes original author.
The laws derived by sir Newton is already present in Shrimad Bhagatgita.
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Ok Coming back to original question how to avoid plagiarism?
The only answer I found is Just be ethical & respect the original work by citing them properly.
Dear @Parag Narkhede, agree with Your last sentence at all! See my answer of 5 days ago.
Regards,
Ljubomir Jacic
through online we can check how much content a person copied. plagiarism software's are also available. use online plagiarism checker
Many tools are available to check plagarism, one of them is http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ ,which is freely available. Content must be well tested before publication and should create awareness in students about it.
Do you think that your students are plagiarising from journals or more easily from the Web? Where should you check first?
Watch out for any sudden change of style, formatting, tone, voice, language ability or grammar in your student's work. Follow all the purported references in their work.
I think one should educate researchers, co-authors and students about Plagiarism, what it is and the dangers therof. Also, how to avoid plagiarism. It's really easy to give credit to the original authors in one's text, so plagiarism is completely unnecessary.
In my papers / presentation / proposals, I make reference to many works of other people - it gives added credibility to what I have to say (I've done my homework and researched the topic) and there is no need to copy someone else's work and claim it's your own. Personally I think it's probably the same amount of work to give the original author credit that it is to commit plagiarism.
It pretty much boils down to the author to choose to do the right thing, and authors need to hear this.
Google is a great help for understanding plagiarism. To me, most of these "thieves" don't even make the effort of changing the text enough, in order to bypass this simple test. If we talk about students, I agree with Ian Kennedy, style is a good indicator of original or "stolen" work...
I think the best way is to write in your own words and then ask help from professional writers or native speakers or even write in your own language and then translate the text.
The use of plagiarism detection software as a mean of self-control is also OK.
If some one is doing these Plagiarism continuosly then what would be the after effect of it??? How can we convince them that Plaigiarism is a crime... Is their any punishment for them...
When I was on a university plagiarism committee, I was surprised to learn that the University could even impose a fine on a plagiarising student, apart from subject failure, course failure or banishment.
What to do if you suspect plagiarism?
The following flowchart from COPE brings fine suggestions.
https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20A.pdf
https://publicationethics.org/
An author loses a fifth paper because it “bears the hallmarks of plagiarism”
https://retractionwatch.com/2021/03/05/an-author-loses-a-fifth-paper-because-it-bears-the-hallmarks-of-plagiarism/
New challenges in the education landscape are prompting institutions to evolve their approaches to academic integrity. That’s why—in partnership with the academic community—we developed Turnitin Originality to go beyond plagiarism detection to address new and emerging forms of misconduct...
https://www.turnitin.com/resources/turnitin-originality-videos
Zombie Plagiarism in Philosophy
"Some philosophy articles might be exposed as containing plagiarized material, might have editorial notes appended to them indicating as much, or might even be retracted, yet no matter how thoroughly or how many times their plagiarism is noted, they will continue to be cited in the literature and affect the course of scholarship.
Seemingly unkillable, such articles constitute what we can call the problem of zombie plagiarism..."
https://dailynous.com/2023/11/01/zombie-plagiarism-in-philosophy/
"In June 2023, we received a report suggesting possible plagiarism in a book authored by a faculty member of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. In response, we established an investigation committee and conducted a thorough inquiry. As a result, we have determined that "plagiarism" occurred in the specific instance of misconduct, as outlined in this investigation report. We hereby disclose a summary of our findings. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused to many stakeholders as a result of this research misconduct, which has undermined the trust in our university's education and research. We take this outcome seriously and are committed to ensuring that such actions do not recur in the future. To this end, we will work diligently on a university-wide effort to further promote awareness and adherence to research ethics and codes of conduct, with the aim of preventing any future occurrences of misconduct..."
https://www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/en/topics/2023/1030
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. However, the information provided does not specify the book in question, the type of plagiarism involved, or any other pertinent details. Furthermore, I am unable to comprehend the contents of the attached letter as it is in a language different from mine, and I cannot view any report results. Please could you mind if you make it clear?
Regards
Kassu Jilcha , the attached link above is in English language. PDF document is in Japanese . You may use some translator such as Google translate in order to get more info, as the results of the investigation into research misconduct by university are given in.
https://www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/application/files/8116/9881/6295/news_20231030.pdf
This is the research question on plagiarism and how to avoid it. This institution made this investigation and got the results which will be instructive to other researchers.
This is a very good way to fight against plagiarism.
A large U.S. university press has stopped selling two scholarly books about the philosophers Slavoj Žižek and John Venn due to problems with how the authors cited – or didn’t cite – source material...
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/11/13/publisher-pulls-books-about-philosophers-zizek-and-venn-over-citation-issues/
Do always bring plagiarism to publicity as Yale professor did!
Yale professor accuses Columbia president Shafik of plagiarism, ‘intellectual theft’ in resurfaced 1994 research paper
"Embattled Columbia University president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik screwed a former underling out of credit on a research paper published 30 years ago, a Yale University professor claims.
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak posted the bombshell allegations in a blistering thread on X early Friday, juxtaposing images of a 1992 report Shafik co-authored for World Bank with researcher Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, along with a journal published in Oxford Economic Papers two years later in which Bandyopadhyay’s name was removed...
Mobarak, an economics and management professor at Yale, told The Post the findings and research cited in both papers are pretty much equal.
“It got rewritten, but fundamentally it’s the same paper,” he alleged..."
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/yale-professor-accuses-columbia-prez-shafik-of-not-subtle-plagiarism-in-resurfaced-1994-research-paper/
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