Questions tagged [plagiarism]
Plagiarism is the practice of taking credit for someone else’s work.
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Should I copyright my figures in my report?
I am writing a report for an assignment in which I have used Tikz/LaTex to make several plots, block diagrams and figures in general. Due to the hard work that has gone in to making them I do not want ...
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After a plagiarism complaint, the journal is slow to respond and not taking any action. What should be done?
Someone from where I work took a piece of work I wrote and published it in their name without informing me. I gave them almost a year's time to remove that paper. They did not. Now I complained to the ...
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High similarity index on turntin
My paper got accepted for a conference. Before submitting the paper, I used Turntin to check for any similarity and found only 6%. But after the conference reviewed my paper and sent it to me, I again ...
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What is considered plagiarism when writing a literature review paper
Taking someone else's experimental data and passing it for your own is objectively wrong. I would not argue with that. But what about when you are writing a review paper about some topic that doesn't ...
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Plagiarizing a published paper in introduction?
I was reading a math preprint on archives (not yet published), and in the introduction the authors say "Following author X in [ref]..." and go on to set up the problem. When I went to [ref], ...
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Found mistakes in my PhD application research proposal after acceptance
I was recently going over my PhD application research proposal and to my horror I found a few mistakes that might constitute as plagiarism. Even though it is fully cited and even though it is common ...
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How to manage and differentiate literature reviews for different papers with related subject?
I wrote a research paper on a given topic. And now I'm writing a continuation for the same research. My question are :
How to include the literature review of the previous paper in the current paper ...
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Plagiarism (and the wider problem of copyright) discussion
Anything related to copyright that I've known, as someone who is not a lawyer, goes like this:
"As long as you cite properly, there is no need to worry about plagiarism"
Today I learned that ...
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How to go about an unclear academic misconduct
In a lab I supposedly conducted academic misconduct by sharing my paper after the time was up. However, in the lab we are allowed to coordinate with our peers and ask questions about the processes of ...
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Professor want to discuss my grades [closed]
Is good or bad sign that my professor want to discuss my grades on my previous midterm right before class? I’m scared. I believe he’s going to kick me out of class.
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Do I need to refer to a publication which provides a useful summary of primary sources?
If a secondary source provides a great summary of a primary source, do I need to cite that secondary source?
For instance, what if Foo, B. (2009) wrote the following:
World (2003) maps factors which ...
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Coauthor copying text - is it plagiarism, and what should I do?
Someone I coauthored a paper with a couple of years ago has recently posted a new preprint (with some new authors) in which several paragraphs have been copied from this earlier paper; at least two ...
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Is it considered plagiarism if I implement a program by closely following a book?
I am creating a software application for my bachelor thesis. I have found a book that guides me through the whole implementation process of my problem, as well as a source code and I am following the ...
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Will plagiarism software find my drafts in Overleaf?
I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics and soon will start writing a thesis on my published papers. I think Overleaf (online cloud) would be more flexible to write the thesis instead my TeXstudio editor. ...
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Improper Citation in Group Project: Have I done the right thing?/What can happen?
I am a U.S. grad student about to wrap up my first semester of my program. In one of my classes, we had a relatively large group project that ended a few days ago. Group leaders were not assigned, but ...
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How often do you have to cite a source when stating that you follow someone's work at the beginning of the section?
I am writing my thesis at this point and I have some sections, which started as follows:
Throughout this section we follow \cite[Section 3.2.1]{...} for solving ...
I am wondering whether I have to ...
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How to handle reviewing a paper which I suspect has been generated by AI?
I am reviewing a paper from a fairly famous journal in computer science. I am mostly sure that the paper was generated by AI. The paper has many problems and deserves to be rejected on the merits. But ...
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How to publish results heavily influenced by a prior paper without being a plagiarizer?
When I was reading prior works for my master's thesis, I found a conference paper whose proposed architecture to solve the problem really caught my eye. So I decided to base my work around that ...
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I plagiarised using chatGPT in my thesis, I assume I will be caught and maybe expelled. How do I create a more lenient punishment? [closed]
Of course, the no-brainer is using chatGPT. I have done something atrocious and unjustified. I realize that I have made a massive mistake after handing in my own assignment. I wrote a thesis with one ...
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What expression to use when citing a publication for a result bordering one, oneself seeks to publish? (replicate, corroborate, in line with)
The specific reason for citing/referencing a publication may accompany an expression signifying that. One broad reason is empirical results (other broad reasons are theoretical ideas, methodological ...
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Should one (if possible) report Professors for plagiarism [duplicate]
It has come to my attention, that some of the professors I studied with as an undergraduate, plagiarized their lectures.
In some cases, it was word for word. In fact, they did not even explain it any ...
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Should I preemptively confess after submitting work that was partially generated by ChatGPT?
A month ago I submitted a piece of coursework which still hasn't been marked. When I wrote it for some sections, I made notes with ChatGPT, which I was supposed to rewrite in my own words, but I ...
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When do you put a term or phrase in quotation marks? How does one get better at knowing when to do this?
We know that when we use a particularly original term when paraphrasing or summarising a scholarly work, we should put it in quotation marks. However, my fear has been that I inadvertently, without ...
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Is it plagiarism to adopt specific questions from a pre-existing questionnaire?
I’m currently required to make a questionnaire for my research. Is it okay to use only specific questions from previously published questionnaires as these questions perfectly apply to my research ...
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Can I keep my PhD thesis chapter intro as is when publishing it as an article if another article was published in the meantime that paraphrases it?
I graduated from my PhD in 2019 and published my thesis online. Just before COVID I submitted an article based on a thesis chapter, but because of life getting in the way I was unable to finish it and ...
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Apparent accusation of plagiarism in peer review
I recently received a peer review report from a journal. They rejected my paper for several reasons, the umbrella explanation is that my work is not suited for that journal. However, there was a ...
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Is it wrong for students to report suspected / borderline plagiarism?
Last year I came across a student in our department (we are both PhD students) who copied a journal article in her final paper. To be sure, she didn’t copy the article word from word but did use the ...
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No quotation marks/citation needed for common expressions/language or for using texts as a model?
This might be a stupid question, but I am asking as a non-native English speaker. Given that we all (even native speakers) will get our English expressions from somewhere, I am wondering when a ...
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Is it okay to just present (without paper) research that is subject to an already finally submitted, but still unpublished conference paper?
I will try to make my question as understandable as possibe.
In the course of a project I belong to as a consortium member, I did research on a particular topic and submitted my findings in form of a ...
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Dealing with a plagiarized paper with both junior and senior authors
The following didn't directly happen to me, but it came close. I'm using first person anyway for clarity.
A paper is submitted to a journal for which I'm an editor. During review, it's noticed that ...
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Does the word "Plagi" have associations with contract-cheating?
We have just noticed the word “Plagi” trending in student submissions for final assignment. These assignments may be technical reports or computer code solutions, often contained with ZIP files. We ...
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Potential Plagiarism of Published Papers when writing Survey Paper
I am in the process of writing a survey paper, and found one conference publication A that I will cite. Additionally, I found a journal publication B that I almost would have included in the survey, ...
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About Master's Thesis Literature Review - Is this plagiarism?
I am writing my thesis for political science in a Masters programme. I found another thesis that is extremely similar to mine, where I could literally use its literature review.
So, I wanted to ask if ...
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Regarding abstract submission at international conference
I presented the paper at an international conference that took place in my country. The conference publishes a newsletter, and my abstract is published in that newsletter, but the conference gathering ...
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What should I do about a tricky situation regarding a student who plagiarized twice?
On the syllabus of an elective college course, I have stated that a student who plagiarizes once will receive a zero for the assignment. A student who plagiarizes twice will receive zeros for the ...
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Somebody plagiarised their master thesis from me – how can I address this?
A few years ago, I discovered that someone (Mr. A) had copied almost the entirety of his master thesis report from a course report I submitted to the same department two years earlier. Mr. A copied my ...
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Can I submit articles in top math journals from my master's thesis (after the defense)?
I am writing my master's thesis and my advisor is taking the total hands-off approach (I am mentioning that because I am still waiting to hear his feedback on the work when he reads it). He wants me ...
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What to do if a special case of a theorem is published
I published a paper in a reputable journal in 2021 December. I had proved a conjecture.
Today I discovered that another author published a special case of the conjecture and published it, in another ...
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Severity of plagiarism [closed]
In my previous question I asked about being accused of plagiarism.
Finally, the examiners have sent me the pages where I have not put the sources. These are 8 pages in total where I accidentally ...
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I unintentionally self-plagiarized in my graduate courses last semester and just realized, what should I do?
I am currently a master's student in the second semester of my first year. I have just returned to graduate school after taking several years off due to the pandemic. Last semester I had two classes ...
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Previous research group didn’t include me as author for my work
I worked at a university the UK, at the end of 2010s and left on good terms with the research group. Thought boss was a nice guy and was appreciative of being able to use him as a referee. Just ...
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Is there a "statute of limitations" on plagiarism? After being accused in one course, can my work in past courses be re-examined?
Is there a "statute of limitations" on plagiarism? After being accused in one course, can my work in past courses be re-examined? I believe I unknowingly plagiarized in a past course.
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technical contribution stealing of a rejected paper and republishing it at the same conference
one of my colleagues told me that one of his papers was rejected at one conference and one year later was a paper accepted with almost the same content at this conference.
Is it in some ways ...
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What to do when your entire draft paper has been plagiarized into a foreign language?
I'm somewhat at a loss. Some time ago I privately circulated an early draft of a survey paper, and now I have found a translation of most of it into Spanish, published under three authors (one a math ...
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Someone copied and submitted my code as theirs, what should I do? [duplicate]
My firend submitted my code on his assignment without my permission and said if something happens he will take the blame, what should I do now ? I am very stressful
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Is describing a different method in the same format as a published paper considered plagiarism?
I've honestly been losing a bit of sleep over one of the sections in my materials chapters because I think it has some similarity to text from a published paper. To compel myself to write this section ...
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How can I report an author for using an unethical way of increasing citation in his work?
A professor of mine has been asking students to write research papers for conferences. I wrote a paper and submitted it to him, and he uploaded it in a conference through EasyChair.
While going ...
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Is this a form of plagiarism? [closed]
Recently, I had an author contact me regarding naming me as a consultant on a project of theirs, rather than co-author, if I was to contribute. No fee was discussed at all.
Was it a form of plagiarism ...
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Is it normal for a PhD thesis' methods chapter to show a high similarity index on iThenticate?
I'm just about to submit my thesis to the library and after putting my entire materials and methods chapter to iThenticate, I found quite a bit of overlap with previously published papers from my lab (...
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If I saw a sentence, kept the words in a certain order to make it more succinct, is it plagiarism?
This is a sentence I read from a previous student's thesis:
Chemical products were measured by loading x μL of reaction A on a gel
(3-10% w/v, depending on your need and availability of machine)
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