In digging up material for a book, I ran across a pair of quasi-identical articles on an unusual topic. The articles were so similar that I sent word to our friends at the Retraction Watch web site, who dug into the history of those articles. Today, Retraction Watch published their report about those two reports: […]
Tag: plagiarism
Patience and Patience: Perspective on Plagiarism
Plagiarism keeps happening, despite teachers’ patient attempts to teach students that plagiarism is bad. Here is a doubly-Patience explanation: “Plagiarism,” Gregory S. Patience [seen here], Daria C. Boffito, and Paul A. Patience, chapter 9 in Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively 2015, Academic Press, pp. 203-211. The authors, at Polytechnique Montréal, write: “Failing to properly […]
“Paper About Plagiarism Contains Plagiarism”
“Paper About Plagiarism Contains Plagiarism” is the headline of an item in the Neuroskeptic blog. The item begins: “Regular readers will know that I have an interest in plagiarism. Today I discovered an amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism. “The paper is called The confounding factors leading to plagiarism in academic writing and […]
Lots and lots of bits of copying in scientific literature
A new study indicates that lots of bits of old studies turn up, verbatim, in lots of newer scientific studies. The new study (which I have not checked to see whether it contains uncredited copied text) is: “Patterns of text reuse in a scientific corpus,” Daniel T. Citron and Paul Ginsparg [pictured here], Proceedings of the […]