At 04:50 PM 12/3/02 -0600, EAKIN MARK E wrote:
this in a way ... reminds me of publishing an article that is from your dissertation ... and, in some cases ... there might be large sections or parts that more or less come directly from the dissertation document ...I found two articles by the same author but published six years apart. The articles used different data sets and drew slightly different conclusions. However in the introductory and literature review sections, there were entire paragraphs that were the same in both articles. The latest article did not cite the first article and the copied paragraphs were not in quotes. Is this common practice and/or an ethical problem? Can you plagarize yourself?
of course, it would be normal to cite the dissertation ... though, i am not so sure about actually having to specifically quote (" ... ") things from page to page ... p93 for example
it is very common practice ... when series of studies are engaged in ... to have consecutive articles sound very similar to previous ones ... where the basic methods are the same, etc. etc. ... more bang for the citation index buck and one has to read pretty carefully to see where the differences are
it is also the case that in LARGE studies ... say a large scale survey ... part of it is talked about in article 1 ... another part in article 2, and so on and, they keep repeating much of the same stuff in the methods section, etc.
the real issue which is essentially impossible to discern in today's "quantity" culture is ... when is a different paper (article) different ENOUGH to be considered to be a new contribution to the field ... that person X gets credit for?
i don't think anyone has a very good answer to that but, i will venture to say that there are differences in the view on this across the disciplines
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