Peer review ghost-writing, or do professors understand plagiarism?
Every academic will probably agree that plagiarism is wrong. It is absolutely not OK to pass someone’s else’s intellectual workContinue Reading
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The infectious self-plagiarism of radiologist Hedvig Hricak
In medicine, academic performance is evaluated quantitatively, by the sheer number of papers. Promotions are granted according to the publicationContinue Reading
Self-Plagiarism: helps careers, hurts noone?
Times Higher Education recently reported about an online survey on research integrity of British scientists. The study was performed andContinue Reading
The decadence of German medical doctorate
Germany is a country where a doctorate still invites respect and even deference, in certain circles at least. Here, the prefixContinue Reading
Academic self-plagiarism: misconduct or a literary art form?
Plagiarism, the misappropriation of the (usually written) work of others in order to present it as one’s own, is universally regarding asContinue Reading
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