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The Problem with Consensual Plagiarism

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Sterling referred to this as “consensual plagiarism”, meaning that the marketing firm was making these works available for journalists and to use, with or without attribution, on their sites. Searching for that text, you quickly find a slew of sites that have published it, either in whole or in part.

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The Nightmare Plagiarism Scenario Comes True

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For over a year, the pair have been trying to publish a paper about green entrepreneurship, focusing on “small-scale Norwegian manufacturing companies.” ” In January 2021, the pair submitted it to the International Small Business Journal , a SAGE journal. Vision is also a SAGE journal.

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Beyond Plagiarism: 5 Other Authorship Issues in Research

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When it comes to authorship issues in research, plagiarism is far from the only one. The post Beyond Plagiarism: 5 Other Authorship Issues in Research appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here are five other authorship issues to be aware of.

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The UPenn Admissions Plagiarism Scandal

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Last week, a petition appeared on the site Change.org that asked the admissions department at the University of Pennsylvania to investigate a pair of students who, according to the organizers, were admitted to a prestigious program at the university despite having heavily plagiarized crucial works. On Predatory Journals and Admissions.

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Paul McCrory Faces 10 More Allegations of Plagiarism

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However, things began to unravel for McCrory when researcher Steve Haake published a paper in Retraction Watch that accused McCrory of plagiarizing some 560 words of his in a letter published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). Why Self Plagiarism Matters. To many, this might not seem like a big deal.

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Ethics in Publishing Gets Its Own Journal

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Fraud, plagiarism, misinformation, and misdirection – they are all toxins polluting scholarly publishing like chemicals tainting a water supply. A new journal from faculty and students at George Washington University hopes to provide counteracting doses of probing research and thoughtful analysis.

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University Dean Cleared in Plagiarism Probe

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In October 2021, Andrew Azzopardi and a student he was mentoring, Andrew Camilleri, published a literature review entitled Risk and Protective Factors in Violent Youth Crime in the first edition of the journal Studies in Social Well-being. . This includes allegations of plagiarism and data manipulation.