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  • Flowcharts

    Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript

    COPE's guidance, as a flowchart, on what to do if you suspect plagiarism in a submitted manuscript. Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript
  • Flowcharts

    Plagiarism in a published article

    COPE's guidance, as a flowchart, on what to do if you suspect plagiarism in a published article. Plagiarism in a published article
  • Case

    Extensive plagiarism

    …Journal A were asked for an explanation. It’s hard to see that there is any explanation apart from plagiarism. The authors of paper A claim that there is only 5% overlap between the two articles.…
  • Seminars and webinars

    UK Seminar 2010: Cultural differences in plagiarism

    …Download presentation: Cultural differences in plagiarism [PDF, 852 KB]…
  • Seminars and webinars

    China Seminar 2017: The future of plagiarism

    …Download presentation: The future of plagiarism [PDF, 3,828 KB]…
  • Seminars and webinars

    UK Seminar 2010: Plagiarism in the electronic age

    …Download the "Plagiarism in the electronic age" presentation [PDF, 2000KB, opens in new window]    …
  • Seminars and webinars

    Seminar 2015: Plagiarism—how to get it down

    …Download presentation: Plagiarism—how to get it down [PDF, 239 KB]…
  • Case

    Plagiarism

    A paper by Turkish authors was submitted to journal A. The paper was virtually the same as one published in the equivalent US journal B of the same specialty,but with different authors. The paper submitted to journal A seems to have been plagiarised from the paper published in journal B. The editor has written to the deans of the faculties of medicine to which the authors are attached. What mor…
  • Case

    Suspected plagiarism

    This is regarding a case of suspected plagiarism in our journal. I as editor have received a manuscript which was published by me in our January 2006 issue and on subsequent follow up after availability of plagiarism detection software the manuscript - a review article - seems to have a lot of similarities to another article written in a website and though the language is not the same -the…
  • Case

    Double plagiarism

    …should be informed that if there is no action or explanation forthcoming on their part, then all the journals will simultaneously publish a notice of plagiarism.…
  • Research

    Prevalence and attitudes towards plagiarism in biomedical publishing 2010

    Plagiarism is a growing issue in scientific publishing domain. Information technology has immensely increased the accessibility of source literature, simultaneously making plagiarism easier then ever, but it has also enabled the development of plagiarism detection software tools. In order to detect and prevent plagiarism, we designed a research project to investigate two issues: the prevalence…
  • Seminars and webinars

    North American Seminar 2016: How to deal with plagiarism

    …Download presentation: How to deal with plagiarism [PDF, 2166 KB]…
  • Case

    Definition of plagiarism?

    …that this is not an isolated incident, the editor has been advised to contact the institute with details of this specific allegation. However, we were interested to note that advice from our legal department clearly stated that plagiarism could only be proven if the alleged plagiarism was word-for-word the same as the original text, with the implication that as the text was in a different…
  • Discussion documents

    How should editors respond to plagiarism? April 2011

    Summary This paper aims to stimulate discussion about how editors should respond to plagiarism. Different types of plagiarism are described in terms of their: extent, originality of the copied material, context, referencing, intention, author seniority, and language. Journal responses to plagiarism are also described including: educating authors, contacting authors’…
  • Seminars and webinars

    UK Seminar 2010: Plagiarism screening: An update from CrossCheck

    …Download "Plagiarism screening: An update from CrossCheck" presentation [PDF, 6500KB]…
  • Case

    Plagiarism

    A manuscript submitted to journal X was remarkably similar to a paper already published in journal Y. The similarities were noticed by one of the peer reviewers for journal X. The paper has been rejected by journal X but the editor has now written to each of the authors asking for an explanation and has told them that if a reasonable explanation is not forthcoming, she will inform the dean of t…
  • Case
    On-going

    Plagiarized figure

    plagiarism? Can the authors remove the figure and publish this paper or should the paper be withdrawn?• Should we contact the author’s university again?…
  • Case

    Plagiarism

    …seems likely that the co-authors are unaware of the plagiarism by the first author. The editor of Journal A wrote to the corresponding author to point out the apparent plagiarism and to ask for an explanation. The corresponding author replied, apologising profusely for the error and saying that he would withdraw the paper for consideration while further investigations were made. He explained that the…
  • Seminars and webinars

    European Seminar 2013: Good practices from 10 years of addressing student plagiarism

    …Download presentation: Good practices from 10 years of addressing student plagiarism [PDF,1300KB]…
  • Case
    Case Closed

    Possible plagiarism

    We received an email from a whistleblower notifying us about possible plagiarism in two chapters published by us, both authored by the same two authors. The whistleblower accused the authors of substantial plagiarism. In both chapters there were, indeed, certain unattributed parts of the text, although the majority was properly attributed. Some of the unattributed parts were authored by…

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