On the surface, the story of Yvonne Hew seems to be a fairly standard story about plagiarism in the age of digital journalism. Hew, up until recently, wrote a weekly column for the Denver Bronc...
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/the-unpaid-plagiarist
The standards of attribution are not universal. How, when and what we cite varies wildly depending upon the type of work, the profession and the expectations of the audience in general.
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/attribution-and-politics-what-should-we-expect
Plagiarism has been a hot topic in Croatia over the past few months. In October 2016, local media began to report that newly appointed science minister, Pavo Barišić, had plagiarized in a 200...
Back in December, Retraction Watch told the story of Michael Dansiger , a researcher at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Dansiger submitted a paper to the Annals of Internal Medicine, which ...
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/when-peer-reviewers-steal
2016 will undoubtedly be one of the most remembered and talked-about years for a long, long time. While that’s certainly true for world events, it’s also very true for plagiarism. When it ...
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/the-top-10-plagiarism-stories-of-2016
Pavo Barišić is Croatia’s new Science Minister. Appointed by the right-wing government coalition following the second election this year, Barišić is already proving to be a very controver...
Christopher S. Collins from Azusa Pacific University is an interesting case study when it comes to accidental plagiarism. In April 2014, he published an article entitled “Can funding for unive...
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/boundaries-of-accidental-plagiarism
On September 8th, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari addressed his nation with a speech announcing a new campaign entitled “Change Begins with Me”. The aim of the campaign is to attack �...
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/a-different-political-plagiarism-scandal
According to a recent post on Retraction Watch , Hossein Jafarzadeh, a PhD candidate at the University of Tehran, has found himself in a unique position: Having had a paper retracted for being a ...
https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/when-research-is-a-copy-of-a-copy
In late August, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against OMICS , an open access academic journal publisher that has long been at the center of the debate over “predatory”...