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 […]
Purloining of burglary and other crime material, they say
A scientist suggests that others have committed wrongs with some of his research. Martin Short, who is CAM Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Mathematics Department, writes on his web site: Published Works … [7] M.B. Short, M.R. D’Orsogna, P.J. Brantingham, and G.E. Tita, Measuring and modeling repeat and near-repeat burglary effects, J. Quant. Criminol. 25 (2009) [6] M.B. […]
Norwegian video tips to avoid plagiarism
The University of Bergen offers this simple video guide, for students, about how to do your work without committing plagiarism: (Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for bringing this to our attention.)
Adventures in Academia: Retracted plagiarism of plagiarism
Today’s Headline of the Day appears in the Retraction Watch blog: Astrophysics retraction trail includes paper that plagiarized another already retracted for… plagiarism
Eminent space-dinosaurs self-plagiarism headline
Today’s Headline of the Day appears in the Nature newsblog: Eminent chemist denies self-plagiarism in ‘space dinosaurs’ paper (HT Ed Yong)
Plagiarize! (then, and again)
“Multiple retractions as brazen plagiarist victimizes orthopedics literature” says the headline today in the Retraction Watch blog, which gives lots and lots of juicy details: Several journals in the field of orthopedics and related disciplines have been victimized by an apparent serial plagiarist. The author, Bernardino Saccomanni, of Gabriele D’ Annunzio University, in Chieti Scalo, Italy—across […]
Plagiarize, Anesthetize, Retract
Plagiarism, be it an art or a science, is all the rage in some circles these days. The Retraction Watch blog tells a most curious tale: A contrite retraction letter, which appears in the December issue of A&A [Anesthesia & Analgesia], from the lead author, Sushma Bhatnagar, of New Delhi, India, called the plagiarism “unintended” […]