Plagiarism in the Context of Education and Evolving Detection Strategies

Abstract

Plagiarism may take place in any scientific journals despite currently employed anti-plagiarism tools. The absence of widely acceptable definitions of research misconduct and reliance solely on similarity checks do not allow journal editors to prevent most complex cases of recycling of scientific information and wasteful, or ‘predatory,’ publishing. This article analyses Scopus-based publication activity and evidence on poor writing, lack of related training, emerging anti-plagiarism strategies, and new forms of massive wasting of resources by publishing largely recycled items, which evade the ‘red flags’ of similarity checks.In some non-Anglophone countries ‘copy-and-paste’ writing still plagues pre- and postgraduate education. Poor research management, absence of courses on publication ethics, and limited access to quality sources confound plagiarism as a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary phenomenon. Over the past decade, the advent of anti-plagiarism software checks has helped uncover elementary forms of textual recycling across journals. But such a tool alone proves inefficient for preventing complex forms of plagiarism. Recent mass retractions of plagiarized articles by reputable open-access journals point to critical deficiencies of current anti-plagiarism software that do not recognize manipulative paraphrasing and editing. Manipulative editing also finds its way to predatory journals, ignoring the adherence to publication ethics and accommodating nonsense plagiarized items. The evolving preventive strategies are increasingly relying on intelligent (semantic) digital technologies, comprehensively evaluating texts, keywords, graphics, and reference lists. It is the right time to enforce adherence to global editorial guidance and implement a comprehensive anti-plagiarism strategy by helping all stakeholders of scholarly communication.

Conocimiento de los estudiantes universitarios sobre herramientas antiplagio y medidas preventivas

“…al, 2010;Weber-Wulff, 2016;Díaz-Arce, 2017a;2017b). Se confirma que las tecnologías antiplagio tienen sus límites, pues no basta con utilizar una sola herramienta, y resulta difícil detectar el texto "parafraseado", por ello recientemente se está intentando contrarrestar con lo que se ha denominado "inteligencia semántica" (Gasparyan, et. al., 2017), que analiza con exhaustividad el texto, los gráficos y las referencias utilizadas.…”

Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct A Systematic Review

“…It is also suggested that stakeholders can provide the anti-plagiarism tools in an open access domain through web links when announcing the call for papers. Gasparyan 45 highlighted in the study that plagiarism is a disease in science and a sign of pseudoscience. Its detection and prevention strategies require a vigilant approach by all stakeholders.…”

Web Scraping and Winnowing Algorithms for Plagiarism Detection of Final Project Titles

“…Title duplication is a common form of plagiarism in writing final project [1], [2], [3]. As one way to overcome these problems, a system is needed to find out how much the percentage of the title of the research submitted by students with the title of the research that already exists.…”