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Plagiarism in Medical Research: Knowns and Unknowns

Academic integrity and ethics are an integral part of the good scientific research. Publications in a peer reviewed journal are an important measure of performance in medical institutions. However, today, similar to all other aspects of human life, even research in medicine has seen a tremendous upsurge in various forms of dishonesty, one among it being plagiarism. This article aims focuses on the concepts of plagiarism in medical research. The objectives of this paper are therefore to define plagiarism, to learn the extent of the problem, to discuss various forms of plagiarism; methods to detect and prevent it. A brief insight into the management of the same is given. KEY WORDS: Management, Plagia

Plagiarism in medical scientific research

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 2015

Objectives: Plagiarism is defined as "the practice of taking someone else's words, work or ideas and passing them off as one's own". It is probably the most common form of scientific dishonesty found in research articles. The aim of this review is to present a comprehensive account about plagiarism to raise awareness of all aspects of plagiarism.

Plagiarism in Scientific Research and Publications and How to Prevent It.pdf

Quality is assessed on the basis of adequate evidence, while best results of the research are accomplished through scientific knowledge. Information contained in a scientific work must always be based on scientific evidence. Guidelines for genuine scientific research should be designed based on real results. Dynamic research and use correct methods of scientific work must originate from everyday practice and the fundamentals of the research. The original work should have the proper data sources with clearly defined research goals, methods of operation which are acceptable for questions included in the study. When selecting the methods it is necessary to obtain the consent of the patients/respondents to provide data for execution of the project or so called informed consent. Only by the own efforts can be reached true results, from which can be drawn conclusions and which finally can give a valid scholarly commentary. Text may be copied from other sources, either in whole or in part and marked as a result of the other studies. For high-quality scientific work necessary are expertise and relevant scientific literature, mostly taken from publications that are stored in biomedical databases. These are scientific, professional and review articles, case reports of disease in physician practices, but the knowledge can also be acquired on scientific and expert lectures by renowned scientists. Form of text publications must meet standards on writing a paper. If the article has already been published in a scientific journal, the same article cannot be published in any other journal with a few minor adjustments, or without specifying the parts of the first article which is used in another article. Copyright infringement occurs when the author of a new article, with or without mentioning the author, uses a substantial portion of previously published articles, including past contributions in the first article. With the permission of the publisher and the author, another journal can re-publish the article already published. In that case, that is not plagiarism, because the journal states that the article was re-published with the permission of the journal in which the article is primarily released. The original can be only one, and the copy is a copy, and plagiarism is stolen copy. The aim of combating plagiarism is to improve the quality, to achieve satisfactory results and to compare the results of their own research, rather than copying the data from the results of other people's research. Copy leads to incorrect results. Nowadays the problem of plagiarism has become huge, or widespread and present in almost all spheres of human activity, particularly in science. Scientific institutions and universities should have a center for surveillance, security, promotion and development of quality research. Establishment of rules and respect the rules of good practice are the obligations of each research institutions, universities and every individual researchers, regardless of which area of science is being investigated. There are misunderstandings and doubts about the criteria and standards for when and how to declare someone a plagiarist. European and World Association of Science Editors (EASE and WAME), and COPE -Committee on Publishing Ethics working on the precise definition of that institution or that the scientific committee may sanction when someone is proven plagiarism and familiarize the authors with the types of sanctions. The practice is to inform the editors about discovered plagiarism and articles are withdrawn from the database, while the authors are put on the so-called black list. So far this is the only way of preventing plagiarism, because there are no other sanctions.

A brief review of plagiarism in medical scientific research papers

Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research

The term known as "plagiarism" was first coined in English around the year 1601 by the dramatist Ben Jonson, in order to characterize someone committing theft in literary (1(. Plagiarism itself has a long life history. There are countless plagiarism cases in almost every specialty in science. In astronomy, David King (a British professor of the history of science) noticed that most theories and models proposed by the famous Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in his famous book (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) were virtually adopted from Arab scientist, Ibn-Elshatir's book (2,3). Writing reports and articles about plagiarism dates to late 1800s when the

Plagiarism in Scientific Writing: Why It Is Important to Know and Avoid

Journal of Political Science, 2021

The main objective of this paper is to discuss plagiarism in relation to research and scientific writing. As the personal computers have become an easy access to the authors, plagiarism is becoming more common while producing any specific scholarly writing. It can range from simple dishonesty to more serious duplications of somebody else’s work or idea without giving appropriate credit to the original source. It may sometimes be intentional and sometimes unintentional or direct plagiarism, or self-plagiarism, but plagiarism of any forms or kinds is a serious problem in research and scientific writing. The paper suggests that all researchers, including authors, editors and reviewers should know about the plagiarism and how to avoid it by following ethical guidelines and using the plagiarism detection software. The paper also describes the concept of plagiarism and its various types, providing some important suggestions to avoid it, ensuring research integrity.

Plagiarism in Scientific Research and Publications and How to Prevent It

Materia Socio Medica, 2014

Quality is assessed on the basis of adequate evidence, while best results of the research are accomplished through scientific knowledge. Information contained in a scientific work must always be based on scientific evidence. Guidelines for genuine scientific research should be designed based on real results. Dynamic research and use correct methods of scientific work must originate from everyday practice and the fundamentals of the research. The original work should have the proper data sources with clearly defined research goals, methods of operation which are acceptable for questions included in the study. When selecting the methods it is necessary to obtain the consent of the patients/respondents to provide data for execution of the project or so called informed consent. Only by the own efforts can be reached true results, from which can be drawn conclusions and which finally can give a valid scholarly commentary. Text may be copied from other sources, either in whole or in part and marked as a result of the other studies. For high-quality scientific work necessary are expertise and relevant scientific literature, mostly taken from publications that are stored in biomedical databases. These are scientific, professional and review articles, case reports of disease in physician practices, but the knowledge can also be acquired on scientific and expert lectures by renowned scientists. Form of text publications must meet standards on writing a paper. If the article has already been published in a scientific journal, the same article cannot be published in any other journal with a few minor adjustments, or without specifying the parts of the first article which is used in another article. Copyright infringement occurs when the author of a new article, with or without mentioning the author, uses a substantial portion of previously published articles, including past contributions in the first article. With the permission of the publisher and the author, another journal can re-publish the article already published. In that case, that is not plagiarism, because the journal states that the article was re-published with the permission of the journal in which the article is primarily released. The original can be only one, and the copy is a copy, and plagiarism is stolen copy. The aim of combating plagiarism is to improve the quality, to achieve satisfactory results and to compare the results of their own research, rather than copying the data from the results of other people's research. Copy leads to incorrect results. Nowadays the problem of plagiarism has become huge, or widespread and present in almost all spheres of human activity, particularly in science. Scientific institutions and universities should have a center for surveillance, security, promotion and development of quality research. Establishment of rules and respect the rules of good practice are the obligations of each research institutions, universities and every individual researchers, regardless of which area of science is being investigated. There are misunderstandings and doubts about the criteria and standards for when and how to declare someone a plagiarist. European and World Association of Science Editors (EASE and WAME), and COPE -Committee on Publishing Ethics working on the precise definition of that institution or that the scientific committee may sanction when someone is proven plagiarism and familiarize the authors with the types of sanctions. The practice is to inform the editors about discovered plagiarism and articles are withdrawn from the database, while the authors are put on the so-called black list. So far this is the only way of preventing plagiarism, because there are no other sanctions.

Plagiarism As Another Ethical Issue In Scientific Research

The excessive demand for publications results in high plagiarism and duplicate numbers by scientists who take over existing texts into new publications. In addition to serious ethical problems, this practice hinders the generation of original material. In order to reduce the problem, softwares such as eTBLAST are being used to detect plagiarism and repeated papers. Despite the persistence of fraudsters, these tools have helped to reduce these problems; however, the ideal solution would be the basic ethical establishment principles. Therefore , plagiarism has always been a foible that could lead to fraudulent and dishonorable development of science.

Plagiarism -A Serious Scientific Misconduct

https://www.ijhsr.org/IJHSR\_Vol.6\_Issue.2\_Feb2016/52.pdf, 2016

The practice of taking the ideas of others or copying the text completely or with little rephrasing constitutes the plagiarism. The plagiarism is a grave form of scientific misconduct. The scientific literature is full of evidences in which manuscripts were annulled due to plagiarism. In this present paper authors highlight this serious issue of plagiarism and also suggest ways to limit the same.