2/14/2023 0 Comments Ithenticate plagiarism![]() ![]() (Disclosure: I am a paid consultant for iThenticate and also helped on this project.) iThenticate presented the scientists with 10 different types of plagiarism and asked them to rank the plagiarism based upon how common they were and how serious they were. To help understand the issue of plagiarism in research, iThenticate, a company that is owned by iParadigms, which also owns Turnitin, recently surveyed some 334 research scientists from 50 countries. ![]() ![]() While it’s easy to think that researchers actively in the field should know better, it’s become obvious that many do not and the routine nature with which papers are retracted due to plagiarism is, at times, breathtaking. For example, a recent study in medical research found that retractions are up 10 fold in the past 20 years and that over a quarter of that growth has been due to plagiarism and duplication issues. However, plagiarism remains a problem long after many scientists, doctors and researchers graduate and those problems seem to be increasing. When it comes to plagiarism in academic or scholarly work, it’s easy to think of plagiarism as being primarily a student problem. ![]()
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