Do journal authors plagiarize? Using plagiarism detection software to uncover matching text across disciplines
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An increased number of authors in a collaborative study enhances the chance for consecutive text matching, carefree attitude towards responsibility, authorship disputes and data integrity issues, which may lead to misconduct and retraction of collaborative articles.
“an increased number of authors in a collaborative study was reported to enhance the chance for consecutive text matching, carefree attitude towards responsibility, authorship disputes and data integrity issues which may lead to misconduct and retraction of collaborative articles (Bennett and Taylor 2003; Sun 2013).”
From Understanding the patterns and magnitude of life science publication retractions in the last four decades (2025) · cites this paper as Sun 2013
Collaborations do not always guarantee ethical behaviour from each collaborator.
“many studies also highlighted the limitations of collaborations as it always not guarantee ethical behaviour from each collaborator (Sun 2013; Parker and Kingori 2016).”
From Understanding the patterns and magnitude of life science publication retractions in the last four decades (2025) · cites this paper as Sun 2013
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- Authors
- Sun, Y.-C.
- Affiliations
- National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (TW)
- Corresponding author
- Sun, Yu-Chih
- ORCID
- Sun, Yu-Chih
- Venue
- Journal of English for Academic Purposes
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-12
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 264-272
- ISSN
- 1475-1585 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2027459055
- Cited by
- 45
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 8.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of English for Academic Purposes (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- plagiarism, self-plagiarism, plagiarism detection software, Turnitin, number of authors, official languages, English as official language, disciplinary differences, social science journals
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