What is the best way to study plagiarism?

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Bijay Singh

I believe, self-reporting is also a form of plagiarism. And the question is whether it should be acceptable or not?

Sarah Elaine Eaton

Thank you for your answer, Bijay. By self-reporting, I mean that many studies use students' own accounts of whether or not they say they have plagiarized as a form of data. The problem is that a research cannot corroborate what the students have reported, which makes it difficult to count this as credible data, right?