Turkish physicists face accusations of plagiarism

A Review of Literature: Plagiarism in the Papers of Turkish Context

“…There were many plagiarism events faced by many authors in the country as the author of this study witnessed by being a victim in Turkey. One of the loudest events was experienced with theoretical physicians in 2007 which included 15 authors and 70 papers (Brumfiel, 2007). These papers and authors were removed from arXiv, some of them were dismissed from the universities but some of them were not.…”

Publication ethics

“…Aşırmacılığı saptamak için üretilmiş olan bu yazımlarla yapılan taramaların sonucunda bazı editörlere göre toplamda % 20, ba-zılarına göre de % 10'luk benzerlik oranı (similarty index) aşırmacılık sınırı olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bazen yazarlar alıntılarının niteliği belli olmasın diye kopyala-yapıştır yaptıkları makaleleri kaynakçaya al- (2) . Kanımca aşırmacılığın en sık yaşanan şekli, araş-tırmacıların kolaycılığa kaçarak, okudukları makalelerde beğendikleri cümleleri alıp olduğu gibi kendi makalelerine yazmalarıdır.…”

Measurement of Similarity in Academic Contexts

“…Although there exist academic and national boards, e.g., JISC [6] (Launch of Jisc Plagiarism Advisory Service) in the United Kingdom [1], a universal standard would be desirable in the scientific community, for the rate of allowable similar and matched content-referring especially to so-called "self-plagiarism" [7,8] or copying of general phrases in the introduction section [9,10]-for an ethically fair and equitable treatment of authors. This mainly implies a wide consensus between journals, editors, authors and institutions.…”

“…Furthermore, the similarity in some parts of articles such as introductions or methods could be weighed differently from results and discussions as well as conclusions. As Brumfiel discussed [9], open archives or preprint servers such as arXiv [11] are often misused for plagiarism and authors with poor English knowledge tend to copy phrases from their own earlier work or the work of others. Therefore, the content of previously published paper(s) by the same (group of) author(s) also has to be evaluated to differentiate between self-plagiarism and the correct re-use of previous published works.…”