Questions tagged [plagiarism]
Plagiarism is the practice of taking credit for someone else’s work.
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Realized a co-author inserted plagiarism into our paper 8 years ago - what to do now?
Recently, after the acceptance of a paper, the journal said some sentences were exactly copied in my manuscript. I was shocked as I was the first author. Later, we found that during the preparation of ...
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To what extent should relevant background be discussed vs. just referenced?
Is is perfectly appropriate to refer reviewers to other papers for understanding a concept or writer must include the concept in his paper too?
What should be done while keeping brevity, plagiarism ...
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Academic Dismissal from PhD program, and Interest to Apply to another PhD
I was dismissed from a PhD program on the charge of plagiarism in Canada. I had muddled up sources, and the professor insisted I deliberately did it to get higher grades. I admitted to the charge. I ...
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Accidently gave essay notes to a classmate
So at the last day of class a classmate asked if they could borrow some of my lecture notes for studying for the final (this was a history class). I said sure and sent them to their usb. Since it was ...
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Is using the description of an award as-is in a CV considered plagiarism?
When applying to graduate programs, most universities ask for a CV. If one has to provide the description of awards they received in their CV, will it be considered plagiarism if they use the official ...
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Results published by others first in parallel. Is my work still publishable?
I am a college student who worked on a small problem in applied mathematics for two years. I recently get together some results that could be sent to publish. However when I am finishing my draft I ...
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How to quote from a source in a different language
I'm writing an essay in English, but much of my source material is in Spanish (my first language). I know how to reference my sources in the bibliography, but how do I quote within the text? Do I ...
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Is it appropriate to rewrite and republish another author's useful but very badly written paper?
I found an engineering-related academic paper from a number of years ago that was published in an obscure journal, likely not peer-reviewed. The English writing is very bad, like it went through three ...
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Using Fiverr for proofreading/editing essays [closed]
I have written my Statement of Purpose all by myself. Now, I am planning to use Fiverr to proofread the essay since I come from a country where English is not widely spoken.
Does it count as ...
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Reporting Plagiarism in Older research
Disclaimer: I apologize for the vagueness of this post as i do not wish to speak negatively about anyone particular on a public forum.
I've been doing research on a specific topic looking at two ...
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can repeated submission of papers omitting main contributor considered as plagiarism?will the journals retract such articles?
I have completed my MTech in an elite institute in India. During my tenure, my professor forced me to collaborate with a Part-time Phd student, hence the work had to be shared data, analysis & ...
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Is mistakenly attributing something to an author that they did not say misconduct or simply bad scholarship?
Related: Miscited in a bachelor thesis
In the above question, the OP mentions that,
...my bachelor thesis had been cited....I have been attributed a conclusion that I haven't drawn, and is indeed ...
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Colleague indirectly accusing me of plagiarism? Help?
I recently got my PhD degree.
2 years of my PhD were done under supervision of X under their department. The rest was done under supervision of Y in another department. When we separated and I moved ...
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Citing unpublished figure from an ex colleague
A former colleague has created a figure. The figure is not published and serves only as a mean for information sharing. I used to be a part of that research group and thus had access to it.
I ...
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Academic dishonesty: Sending material to other group members?
To help with the rest of the members for the group assignment I sent some images of a guide on how to do academic research for assignments.
This ordinarily came from another unit of mine, which was ...
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Supervisor published my thesis figures without including me as an author
The supervisor for my PhD thesis has recently published a paper with another student. In this paper, the other student has replicated one of the chapters of my PhD thesis for publication.
For ...
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How does graduate admission committee detect plagiarism in letter of recommendation?
If my current recommender recycles the letter from previous recommender after each other's consent, will this be classified as plagiarism?
This is for MS programs to US universities FYI.
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Regarding Publication Authorship
I worked with this teammate on a 4-people class group project. We did research, conceived ideas and prototyped the concept together. I just found out that he is publishing this research work with ...
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how much input from someone else can a student have in an essay without it being collusion?
From the very first assignment an undergraduate student has been submitting work which has been heavily and repeatedly revised by her father (who is an A level teacher of the subject of her degree). ...
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What to do when the professor does not stand up to cheating? [closed]
I was the teaching assistant (TA) for a very introductory physics course at a large state university. In the course of grading for this class, I came to learn that my university used the same course ...
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How to react once you discover someone plagiarized your call for papers?
I am editing a special issue for the reputable Journal A. My special issue is now closed and I am still running the paper reviews. Much to my surprise, I discovered my CFP is plagiarised word-by-word ...
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How to cite a method that I describe in my paper since it is not standard in my field
In one of my PhD papers I am using a statistical model that is not known in my field, and many readers (including my PhD supervisors) will not be familiar with it. I therefore dedicate a subsubsection ...
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My research was plagiarised and won best paper of a conference. How to proceed?
I am a PhD student in electrical engineering, and I recently found out a published paper from another research group which I am collaborating through a joint project using exactly my idea and the data ...
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Is referencing online solution acceptable when completing assignments
I'm not sure if I'm overthinking this.
Recently I had an assignment that is intended to be completed individually in which I cannot understand one of the questions at all. Lectures didn't help as the ...
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I have been accused of copying two lab reports from the previous year even though I had done everything by myself
Today I got accused by my professor of cheating and copying two reports I submitted. I had a formal meeting with the professor where he tried to push me into admitting I cheated by showing me the ...
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Self-plagiarism in Publication-based commentary PhD thesis? [duplicate]
I am writing a publication-based PhD thesis, and the thesis will not be publicly accessible once has been finished due to classified data included. The thesis is not the traditional sandwiched thesis, ...
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Should I reveal academic misconduct on grad school application?
I am currently applying to grad schools due soon, and on the system I am using to apply to different schools, it asks whether an academic sanction has been levied against me. In my first year of ...
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Can a company prevent a co-author of a paper from putting his name on it?
I was working for a company where we put forward a paper with other colleagues. I was the first author and the paper got rejected. After that I left that company. Recently, I found out that they ...
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How to handle a case of unpublished plagiarism?
I am a Master's student in a field of the humanities. Half a year ago I was invited to an informal colloquium of mostly doctorands and post-docs who work at the institute I'm studying at. One ...
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If I wanted to quote a joke from a website in verbatim in a formal academic essay, how would I do that?
The assignment is to evaluate humor in movies. I am unsure how to incorporate a joke quote in there. Would it be classified as plagiarism?
Quote: “I have an Epi-Pen. My friend gave it to me as he ...
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I have been accepted to an event where a keynote lecturer is a plagiarist
After some decades an event on my research area was announced in my city, so I decided to send my abstract, which was accepted.
However, they recently sent me the programme and among the keynote ...
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Advisor asked for my entire slide presentation so she could give the presentation at an international conference
First, she never helped me on either my thesis or my slide presentation.
After my presentation (which she did not attend), she asked me "how to present" it to her so she could use it in the ...
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Existing hypothesis, same country, but different years and setting – is it plagiarism?
I am working on a master-thesis research paper. Recently, I have chosen a research topic and found a related survey dataset to work with. However, just now, I have found out that other authors did the ...
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Separating referenced text from own text, a simple example
Consider this example:
According to XYZ [1], this is referenced text. This is is also referenced text. Now this is my
text in the same paragraph.
It does not tell where the referenced text ends ...
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Colleague's grant application resembles my PhD thesis
A colleague/friend has asked me to review his application for a very large grant, which appears to resemble my PhD thesis.
The backstory is as follows. My PhD thesis was the first detailed study of ...
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Copy pasting definitions and theorems from other papers to my own paper
I am writing a mathematical paper. Since my English is not perfect, i am borrowing sentences from English-speaking authors. I have some questions about copy and paste from other papers to my paper. ...
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How to avoid plagiarism if I am learning from other's code?
I am taking a class that gave us a broad assignment: apply effect to a series of pictures via python. It did not include any lectures on the underlying principles of effects as it would be too broad ...
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Is it plagarism if the entire paper is copied, but each sentence is quoted? [closed]
I have some high school students submitting assignments where the entire paper is copied from another source. They cited every line. Is this plagiarism? I'm sure they are just being lazy, but they ...
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Allowed help in thesis
If you write a thesis, is it legal to ask somebody if things you did are correct in the thesis? When it's my own work and this person says, everything correct, there shouldn't be any problem, right? ...
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Plagiarism of reference?
I'm currently writing my master thesis. I'm a bit conflicted with what I do... Reference stealing.
So let's say article A talk about something that was reported from X, something else from Y and Z.
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Possible new type of plagiarism tool [closed]
I was wondering if there is a platform or a tool that can flag papers for being plagiarised?
Brief: let's say I am researching on topic X and have used Y as a reference paper. But while through the ...
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How to properly credit other people when writing a text book?
In many textbooks, authors usually write about other people's research results without the type of detailed and extensive citations typically seen in a research paper.
Often times without any credit ...
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Is it okay to paraphrase other authors' literature reviews?
I am currently writing a literature review for my bachelor thesis and I am not sure if what I am currently doing is acceptable.
My approach right now is to look at about 10 different literature ...
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Citing a paper that led to the discovery of another [closed]
Whilst reading a paper I discovered another and I am now building upon the latter. Should I cite the former paper, since that's how I discovered the latter? Or does it suffice to cite only the latter?
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How serious is plagiarism in a master’s thesis?
I published my PhD thesis three years ago.
I have just come to know that a master’s student has copied three chapters from my PhD thesis half a year later. My PhD supervisor was also the supervisor ...
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Avoid plagiarism when copying (paraphrasing) paragraphs for the background section of Masters Thesis
In my background section, I have a subsection which explains ideas from research papers that my supervisor has previously published.
Basically in my thesis, I build upon these ideas and so I have a ...
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Using open source code in solving course exercises
Is it normal in computer science courses that one can't use open source code to solve exercises on courses even if the licenses of the code allows to use the code? I was confused as I used some code, ...
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What are the chances of degree revoke if an unrelated plagiarized paper was published during the course of Phd studies
The Phd Thesis and course work all are un-plagiarized; degree completed through all the normal procedures of the university.
However, a plagiarized research paper which is un-related to the doctoral ...
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Plagiarism / citation standards in non-/less-scientific works
Yesterday night, a renowned Dutch newspaper published a long article on a former rector of one of the largest universities in the Netherlands. Research conducted by the paper shows she didn't take ...
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About similarity Index [closed]
Regarding similarity index of research mathematics papers, I would like to know what is the acceptable similarity index for journals in average?
