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      Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing: Issues, Developments and Education

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          Text-based plagiarism, or copying language from sources, has recently become an issue of growing concern in scientific publishing. Use of CrossCheck (a computational text-matching tool) by journals has sometimes exposed an unexpected amount of textual similarity between submissions and databases of scholarly literature. In this paper I provide an overview of the relevant literature, to examine how journal gatekeepers perceive textual appropriation, and how automated plagiarism-screening tools have been developed to detect text matching, with the technique now available for self-check of manuscripts before submission; I also discuss issues around English as an additional language (EAL) authors and in particular EAL novices being the typical offenders of textual borrowing. The final section of the paper proposes a few educational directions to take in tackling text-based plagiarism, highlighting the roles of the publishing industry, senior authors and English for academic purposes professionals.

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                Contributors
                +852-28592415 , yongyan@hku.hk
                Journal
                Sci Eng Ethics
                Sci Eng Ethics
                Science and Engineering Ethics
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                1353-3452
                1471-5546
                26 April 2012
                26 April 2012
                2013
                : 19
                : 3
                : 1241-1254
                Affiliations
                Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
                Article
                9367
                10.1007/s11948-012-9367-6
                3735955
                22535578
                225673fa-e5b1-4d21-9333-cf0d6ac0c911
                © The Author(s) 2012
                History
                : 25 January 2012
                : 12 April 2012
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                © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

                Ethics
                text-based plagiarism,automated text-matching,english as an additional language (eal) authors,novice scientists

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