Timeline for Multiple accounts of plagiarism (?) during literature study: are my standards too high or should I take action?
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 13:45 | comment | added | Chris H |
@Bram I'm reading a couple of theses at the moment for students I work with (I'm the postdoc in the group). The "I'll add the citation later" mentality is common even among otherwise scrupulous postgrads. I suggest to them they adopt my macros that allow a very quick \cn{} to add a wikipedia-style "Citation needed" and a \warn{optional text} for notes to self that appear in the output. Both have output amenable to searching the final PDF as well as helping pre-submission reviewers. Another easy one is citing some material, but then adding explanation that separates citation & text.
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | robert bristow-johnson | i think the issue of self-plagiarism is that the author is trying to get a lot of mileage out of a single effort. what should be one paper becomes several papers, each looking original until people track down the previous publications of the same author. it's an old trick. | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | Buffy | @JirkaHanika, actually it is called self plagiarism at least, and people have been severely reprimanded for it. The issue isn't ownership, but the ability of readers to trace ideas back to the original source - the paper, not the person. It disrupts research. Knowing the original source lets you see the original context. | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 16:18 | comment | added | Jirka Hanika | Self-plagiarism isn't a type of plagiarism. It's a different crime. Perhaps you might have a closer example of standards on plagiarism itself evolving over time. | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | tpg2114 | @Bram It's possible that a paragraph was pasted in and a comment in the LaTeX (or whatever typesetting software) said "Come back and rephrase this later." And after writing and proofreading 200 more pages and preparing a defense, the author forgot about that comment. It may not have been an active "I'm going to use this paragraph exactly, quotes be damned." It could have been "Oh, I like how they said this, I'll circle back later and paraphrase" where the later didn't come due to other time constraints/brain fry. | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | Bram | I can't imagine there was evil intent, but I feel that forgetting about something (in this very relatable sea of details) and being lazy are in fact different things. Everybody can miss something as proofreading your own work is difficult at beset, but not being bothered to put in the quotation marks (or paraphrasing) in my opinion is more like 'active wrongdoing'. Not the same as plagiarism, but still wrong. I guess I'll just continue my quest to improving the world :). | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 12:58 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |