My sense is that these experiences are not all that uncommon in the biomedical sciences and in particular with some low impact factor, foreign-based journals.
Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher D. Green" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:24:02 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Plagiarism in Published Work On 11/28/11 9:32 AM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: An interesting article from Chronicle of Higher Education on plagiarism of one article. The author has apparently found over 20 instances of the article being plagiarized. The response of editors of journals has been silence, for the most part. http://plagiarism-main.blogspot.com/ I am entirely un-surprised, I must say. When I was a graduate student, I found a published article in a reputable peer-review journal that consisted almost entirely of cobbled together paragraphs from a number of other articles on the same topic (I was writing a paper of my own on the topic at the time, so I knew the literature in this area extremely well). What tipped me off first that something was amiss were paragraphs containing pronouns that did not refer to anything named in the previous paragraph (that is how crude the cutting and pasting had been). Then I found certain unusal phrases that I knew I had read before and, when I located them in other articles, I found that whole paragraphs around them had been copied as well. I went to the journal editors about it. They said that they had not been editors when the paper was published and, so, could not do anything about (or, rather, weren't interested in doing so). I went to a few of the authors who had been apparently plagiarized. They too did not have much interest in pursuing the matter. (To be entirely fair, the article in question was 8 or 9 years old at the time, and some of the plagiarized material was over 15 years old.) So it goes... Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13482.917fac06d4daae681dabfe964ca8c74e&n=T&l=tips&o=14452 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-14452-13482.917fac06d4daae681dabfe964ca8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14467 or send a blank email to leave-14467-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
