Questions tagged [self-plagiarism]
Self-plagiarism is the unethical reuse or republication of one's own work.
197
questions
1
vote
2answers
99 views
Editing in an Academic Journal
TLDR: Can a researcher include an entire paragraph from another article for which they were a co-author on a new, single-author article?
Copy-editor for an academic journal here with an issue I've ...
2
votes
1answer
376 views
How badly will a master's thesis plagiarism report affect my career? [closed]
This is a question continuation of this post: How to defend plagiarism in master's thesis. I want to thank all the people who helped me in the last post with their answers.
In the academic committee, ...
19
votes
1answer
2k views
Journal rejected my paper because contents of paper are in PhD thesis [duplicate]
I have submitted a journal paper to a journal four days ago and today I received an email informing me that it has been rejected. The only reason for this is: "About 70 % of the article is ...
2
votes
1answer
87 views
Can I use the same paper topic for two different classes?
I recently enrolled in a Master's program at a new university. I'm in the process of finishing my Master's thesis from a previous program, so now I'm sort of doing both at the same time. They are in ...
0
votes
2answers
175 views
how one is not accused of plagiarism when including an article in a MSc thesis? [duplicate]
Let us suppose that I am following my MSc studies. At the end of my compulsory courses I have an accepted article for being presented in a conference with my advisor. For graduating, I need to prepare ...
2
votes
0answers
45 views
Do I need to rephrase my conference abstract when submitting the corresponding journal paper?
I am submitting an abstract for a conference that, if accepted, will be published in its "book of abstracts". I know that wouldn't cause any issues for submitting the paper to a journal, but ...
0
votes
3answers
268 views
Phd Thesis vs 5 years publications documentation [duplicate]
I am doing my PhD in data mining and I want to start writing my thesis. Is there any acceptable percentage of similarities between the final thesis and the used published research to create the final ...
8
votes
7answers
7k views
How to defend plagiarism in master's thesis
I am an Indian student and studying in the USA away from home and family.
I am writing my master's thesis in a private University and we were two weeks away to submit the final version to the ...
0
votes
1answer
116 views
What is the impact factor of my short communication paper?
Recently I published a paper in as a short communication in a Springer Journal in Natural Science discipline (Impact Factor 3.56). It was a short paper within 2500 words and 3 figures although the ...
3
votes
2answers
120 views
can I take parts from my thesis (different language) to be used in a paper without paraphrasing?
My PhD thesis is in French, can I take parts from it, just translate them to English (without any paraphrasing) and use them in my next paper? would this cause any plagiarism issues?
63
votes
3answers
8k views
Paper was rejected for high similarity with parts of my own dissertation
My PhD thesis consisted of two published papers and one submitted paper embedded in some additional framing. For completion of my PhD, I had to upload my thesis to the servers of our academic library, ...
3
votes
3answers
333 views
The limits of self-plagiarism
I'm currently writing my second paper.
Although the focus is completely different of my first paper, some aspects of the context are similar.
I am perfectly aware that self-plagiarism needs to be ...
1
vote
1answer
116 views
Will similarity index in an unpublished yet accepted conference paper count after its journal version appeared online [closed]
I submitted my conference paper to IEEE ICC. It took nearly 4 months in decision.
During waiting time, I also submitted its 2 extended versions to 2 different journals.
The conference paper met ...
8
votes
3answers
542 views
Verbatim self-plagiarism in introductory sections
I'm reviewing an article where the authors are kind of experts of a particular subject and published several similar studies in the field, some even in the same journal.
This apparently leads them to ...
3
votes
2answers
350 views
how to avoid to being blamed of self-plagiarism in this case?
We have the following "weird" situation in the institution that I am currently working on. We have a master´s degree in CS that requires that the students present a thesis or a research article so ...
0
votes
3answers
149 views
Can I use paragraphs from an already published article in a new article?
Can I use paragraphs from an already published article in a new article?
I want to repeat some ideas as an introduction and there is no point in re-writing them when I already reached my desired ...
1
vote
2answers
159 views
How to deal with self-plagiarism or re-publishing of previous work in literature review paper?
I am writing a systematic literature review and the problem is that in my subject there are multiple cases of previous work re-publishing or self-plagiarism: the same authors write multiple (2-3) ...
1
vote
1answer
62 views
Reusing previous review for similar paper
Some months ago, I reviewed a paper for a conference (with a joint submission to a journal). I rejected the paper with a list of points that were missing and suggestions for improving the manuscript.
...
1
vote
2answers
219 views
Is reusing sources self-plagiarism? [closed]
I have a class that I have to research a topic on. It can be anything and all I have to do is inform the class about the topic. It's not super intense research, just a small amount, enough for a 5 ...
4
votes
1answer
135 views
Writing a journal paper based on work already published in conference paper
Im in the Applied Computer Science field (deploying technologies in different areas of society). I published a conference paper last year on one such case study and wanted to reuse this data to create ...
1
vote
1answer
191 views
Is re-using parts of one's own SoP (or research statement) considered self-plagiarism?
Are the following considered instances of self-plagiarism?
Re-using parts of one's own statement of purpose (submitted as part of a graduate admission application) in SoPs submitted with other ...
0
votes
2answers
274 views
Reviewer noticed a significant overlap of my submitted draft with an earlier paper of mine [closed]
in a single-blind paper reviewer one of the reviewer comments In total, 12% of the paper contains text from X et al. (2019) which is not properly cited. this cited article, is one of my works. in ...
0
votes
2answers
253 views
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, ...
1
vote
1answer
58 views
How to Present an (Essentially) The Same Proof, in a Different, Earlier Working Paper, in a Present Paper?
I was requested to provide a simple proof for a side assertion made in one of my submissions. Regarding feasibility, it can be done; but the simplest proof that I came up with is already present in ...
5
votes
2answers
610 views
Is it self-plagiarism to reuse sources?
I've taken two classes in a row that require research papers to be written as an assignment, and since the second one has had a similar criteria for which topics are allowed, I decided to continue ...
3
votes
4answers
863 views
To include part of a published paper in a dissertation?
Context
It's becoming common in the natural sciences for grad students to include papers they have previously published as part of their dissertation as a "sandwich thesis" or "stapled ...
2
votes
1answer
76 views
Publishing expanded supplementary information as separate paper
I contributed to a paper to a journal in the life sciences. The paper contains a lot of field-specific theory, but the main point relies on a result obtained through some new inference method that I ...
3
votes
2answers
200 views
Revising thesis into a publication : Can I use the same language or must I paraphrase?
I'm in the process of revising my MA thesis for a publication. I am not clear whether I can just copy and paste information from my thesis and do minimal revisions, or I should paraphrase my thesis to ...
0
votes
1answer
108 views
Can I use a part of figure in my published paper to supplementary information of new paper?
I'm researched some material and I want to write two paper to other journals. Can I use a part of figure of first paper to supplementary information of second paper? For example, electrical properties ...
0
votes
1answer
146 views
How to reuse/cite your paper in your thesis when both have same topic [duplicate]
I’m writing my thesis and I submitted a paper on the same topic to a conference, where it got accepted. However, the contents such as methods, results, and conclusion are identical in text, i.e. I ...
2
votes
3answers
815 views
Turning a conference proceedings into a book chapter. Is it self plagiarism?
I've recently sent some of my research to a local conference entitled "XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto". After the conference, I started getting contacted by some publishers asking me ...
1
vote
2answers
368 views
Dissertation: How to properly reference earlier versions of working papers in the German academic system?
I recently became the co-author of a working paper an older version of which is online (at which stage I was not a co-author yet).
We added and changed most of the content, however some applications ...
25
votes
4answers
8k views
Is it normal to “extract a paper” from a master thesis?
I have finished my master thesis and now a couple of colleagues who were involved (one of which was the supervisor) are interested in "extracting a paper" from it. We have already written one paper on ...
2
votes
0answers
60 views
How do you properly put your published work in to your PhD thesis? [closed]
I have previously published a couple of papers in my PhD. I want to put them into my PhD. thesis as is. Is there any proper way to include the papers without doing any self-plagiarism?
2
votes
1answer
175 views
Self plagarism with co-authors
I think we can all agree that if I am presenting work that is intended to be new ideas and I present a previously published result of which I am the sole author, that this is self-plagiarism. The ...
2
votes
3answers
852 views
Are accepted papers going to be plagiarism checked?
here's my friend's situation, he submitted a journal paper then gave up after some time and thought it's going to be rejected after a few rejections in an open access journal,he put some parts (as it ...
1
vote
3answers
95 views
Can I write the same text in method section in two different project?
I am working on two projects now and both of them have similar methods. What if I write the same text in the method part? Will it be count as plagiarism? I am almost finished working on them and both ...
1
vote
1answer
71 views
Reusing part of my thesis within the same thesis
Doing an engineering thesis, and I have presented a detailed summary of my data in the abstract. Is it ok for me to copy/paste entire paragraphs of my abstract to my conclusion without changing a ...
3
votes
3answers
290 views
Self-plagiarism of thesis for public report
I am writing a non-academic report based on the research I did for my PhD thesis. The report is a condition of the funding that supported my research. It is non-academic and will be published publicly....
0
votes
2answers
301 views
Is it self-plagiarism if I upload a paper in error, delete it, and then upload a modified version again somewhere else?
Last week, I did a paper, and posted it on my school's online blackboard. Not even five minutes later, I realized I had misread the directions and took it down. Some of my points were still relevant,...
0
votes
4answers
110 views
Are not published workshop papers considered in similarity check for an extended journal paper?
I am going to submit my journal paper in 2 weeks. Besides, there is a workshop whose deadline is in a couple of days. I am going to submit a brief version of my potential journal paper (12 pages) in ...
0
votes
2answers
162 views
About legality on self-plagiarism when publishing an article
I found out that a collegue published about 5 years ago a paper in the proceedings of a conference about education in engineering (proceedings has ISBN, but publication has no DOI, in case that ...
0
votes
1answer
75 views
To what extent similar remarks from the same author can appear in different papers?
I came across this situation that seems not immediately obvious as regards the "line" for self-plagiarism.
Suppose I have two papers on two related problems such that merging the two papers is not ...
3
votes
2answers
197 views
Conference Paper/Poster version of Bachelor Thesis - should I cite the thesis?
My B. Sc. thesis is shortlisted for a young scientist award, which allows me to take part in the respective society's yearly conference for free, submit a full conference paper as well as present a ...
1
vote
1answer
190 views
Advisor recommended reuse excerpt of master's dissertation in Ph.D. Thesis
I am finishing writting my Ph.D. thesis and a bit short on time. Part of my Thesis would be a review of literature, regarding the method used. This method was used as well in my Master's work (under ...
1
vote
2answers
636 views
avoid auto-plagiarism in publishing results from PhD thesis [duplicate]
I'm currently writting my thesis, where are exposed unpublished results that I would like to publish (may be after my PhD defense). Can I directly re-use text from my thesis ?
1
vote
0answers
19 views
Doing masters in Political Economy
Is it possible to use part of my thesis proposal to help me write another essay on a different assignment ? Or does this amount to "self-plagiarism"? Essentially in the other assignment I want to use ...
3
votes
1answer
392 views
Question on whether I have committed plagiarism (modifying paragraphs from an unpublished document sent as email attachment for PhD thesis)
Background
My colleague and I are both PhD students (My colleague started about 8 months after me) from the same research group (and share the same PhD supervisor) in a UK university. We were ...
-1
votes
1answer
132 views
Is this considered plagiarism? [closed]
So I submitted my work to my professor, he graded it and told me to make changes. I am submitting the same project to the same professor, however to make the changes I am writing in a new doc. I want ...
0
votes
4answers
635 views
Can I reuse parts of a chapter from a text book in my thesis?
This question is related to this one. Only this time it's not about a journal paper but a chapter in a text book.
I am first author of the chapter in the text book that was published by a renowned ...
