Unethical behavior among university students such as cheating and plagiarism has weakened the character of honesty in education. This fact has challenged those who perceived education as a holistic process of internal...Unethical behavior among university students such as cheating and plagiarism has weakened the character of honesty in education. This fact has challenged those who perceived education as a holistic process of internalizing values and norms that lead to the formation of students＇ moral principles and moral behaviour. Educators have played the role of ensuring the students to internalize and realized moral values and norms. A study of 360 students of the second semester who enrolled at the course of ＂ethical and personal development＂ at Atma Jaya Catholic University in Indonesia showed that unethical behavior such as cheating and plagiarism were rarely done. However, a deep look at the reason the students did academic dishonesty has prompted the permissiveness of student＇s moral life. This study proves that academic integrity among university students is worrisome, and it is worsened by the fact that they were enrolled in the course of ＂ethical and personal development＂. Seriously taking into consideration the strong desire of students to change the culture of academic misconduct, the authors argue that an educational model which is not oriented excessively to cognitive performance is needed. The authors argue that this position has to be practiced in line with the involvement of ＂clean＂ students who are involved as role models in influencing the formation of student awareness and ethical behavior.展开更多
We proposed a flexible anti-plagiarism system model based on user-defined plagiarism standards. We also proposed PlagLazy and format-legacy phenomena that plagiarist will remain format-legacy such as soft-enter symbol...We proposed a flexible anti-plagiarism system model based on user-defined plagiarism standards. We also proposed PlagLazy and format-legacy phenomena that plagiarist will remain format-legacy such as soft-enter symbol in his DOC document after plagiarizing material from web and corresponding optimized algorithm which improves the speed of comparison. Our model is suitable for the anti-plagiarism and monitoring of large document collections, and it can also be used in digital library, E-learning and other fields.展开更多
Elements of correspondence (“coincidences”) between a student’s solutions to an assigned set of quantitative problems and the solutions manual for the course textbook may suggest that the stu-dent copied the work f...Elements of correspondence (“coincidences”) between a student’s solutions to an assigned set of quantitative problems and the solutions manual for the course textbook may suggest that the stu-dent copied the work from an illicit source. Plagiarism of this kind, which occurs primarily in fields such as the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, is often difficult to establish. This paper derives an expression for the probability that alleged coincidences in a student’s paper could be attributable to pure chance. The analysis employs the Principle of Maximum Entropy (PME), which, mathematically, is a variational procedure requiring maximization of the Shannon-Jaynes entropy function augmented by the completeness relation for probabilities and known information in the form of expectation values. The virtue of the PME as a general method of inferential reasoning is that it generates the most objective (i.e. least biased) probability distribution consistent with the given information. Numerical examination of test cases for a range of plausible conditions can yield outcomes that tend to exonerate a student who otherwise might be wrongfully judged guilty of cheating by adjudicators unfamiliar with the surprising properties of random processes.展开更多
Purpose:To reveal the typical features of text duplication in papers from four medical fields:basic medicine,health management,pharmacology and pharmacy,and public health and preventive medicine.To analyze the reasons...Purpose:To reveal the typical features of text duplication in papers from four medical fields:basic medicine,health management,pharmacology and pharmacy,and public health and preventive medicine.To analyze the reasons for duplication and provide suggestions for the management of medical academic misconduct.Design/methodology/approach:In total,2,469 representative Chinese journal papers were included in our research,which were submitted by researchers in 2020 and 2021.A plagiarism check was carried out using the Academic Misconduct Literature Check System(AMLC).We generated a corrected similarity index based on the AMLC general similarity index for further analysis.We compared the similarity indices of papers in four medical fields and revealed their trends over time;differences in similarity index between review and research articles were also analyzed according to the different fields.Further analysis of 143 papers suspected of plagiarism was also performed from the perspective of sections containing duplication and according to the field of research.Findings:Papers in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy had the highest similarity index(8.67±5.92%),which was significantly higher than that in other fields,except health management.The similarity index of review articles(9.77±10.28%)was significantly higher than that of research articles(7.41±6.26%).In total,143 papers were suspected of plagiarism(5.80%)with similarity indices≥15%;most were papers on health management(78,54.55%),followed by public health and preventive medicine(38,26.58%);90.21%of the 143 papers had duplication in multiple sections,while only 9.79%had duplication in a single section.The distribution of sections with duplication varied among different fields;papers in pharmacology and pharmacy were more likely to have duplication in the data/methods and introduction/background sections,however,papers in health management were more likely to contain duplication in the introduction/background or results/discussion sections.Different structures for papers in different fields may have caused these differences.Research limitations:There were three limitations to our research.Firstly,we observed that a small number of papers have been checked early.It is unknown who conducted the plagiarism check as this can be included in other evaluations,such as applications for Science and technology projects or awards.If the authors carried out the check,text with high similarity indices may have been excluded before submission,meaning the similarity index in our research may have been lower than the original value.Secondly,there were only four medical fields included in our research.Additional analysis on a wider scale is required in the future.Thirdly,only a general similarity index was calculated in our study;other similarity indices were not tested.Practical implications:A comprehensive analysis of similarity indices in four medical fields was performed.We made several recommendations for the supervision of medical academic misconduct and the formation of criteria for defining suspected plagiarism for medical papers,as well as for the improved accuracy of text duplication checks.Originality/value:We quantified the differences between the AMLC general similarity index and the corrected index,described the situation around text duplication and plagiarism in papers from four medical fields,and revealed differences in similarity indices between different article types.We also revealed differences in the sections containing duplication for papers with suspected plagiarism among different fields.展开更多
In 2012, the first paper in the series Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications was published in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. This paper was m...In 2012, the first paper in the series Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications was published in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. This paper was mainly based on evidence presented in the 2011 in book Historical Overview of Chromatography and Related Techniques in Analysis of Antimalarial Drug Primaquine (editor Ilia Brondz, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ISSN 978-1-61761-944-1). The first paper in this series di- scussed issues of obvious falsification and plagiarism contained in paper published by Dongre et al., Applications of GC-EI-MS for the Identification and Investigation of Positional Isomer in Primaquine, an Antimalarial Drug. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2005, pp. 111-116. Dongre et al. copied their publication from an original research manuscript submitted for consideration by other authors. This paper was published in the Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 1678-1688. Conclusive arguments against the publication of Dongre et al. were presented in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. Further cases of general plagiarism and incompetence relating to authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers were presented in Part II in Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications Part II: The Authors’, Reviewers’, Editors’ Responsibility and the Publishers’ Authority in the International Journal of Analytical Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013, pp. 81-89. The present paper will discuss the following issues: the obvious neglect of the rights of authors by some publishers and editors;how original research manuscripts are exposed to mediocre researchers, and possibly sold, by editors to these “scientists” to boost the image of these particular “scientists”;how the order of authors’ names in published articles are changed to satisfy the commercial interests of companies;and how copyright is breached in an appalling way by well-established publishers. The documents presented here concern research publications in the fields of chromatography, chromatography-mass spectrometry, and mass spectrometry.展开更多
Despite the obvious frauds published in [1] [2] and the involvement of Editors and Editors in Chief of the journals in the publication of these fraudulent papers, the Editors in Chief of publishers have not taken any ...Despite the obvious frauds published in [1] [2] and the involvement of Editors and Editors in Chief of the journals in the publication of these fraudulent papers, the Editors in Chief of publishers have not taken any action to retract the fraudulent papers or to dismiss the corrupt editors. By this passivity, these Editors in Chief are supporting plagiarism, dissemination of fraudulent data, lies and making published information unreliable. In the present paper, we evaluate examples of bold, fraudulent publications and give the names of some Editors directly participating in concealing fraudulent publications, together with the names of Editors in Chief who also concealed and covered the facts of fraud and were reluctant to remove the fraudulent papers from circulation or to remove cheaters from editorial positions. The truth is universal and international;in contrast, the lie is individual and partisan, social, political, confessional, cultural and dirty. Knowledge is a truth that is part of the Universe. Lies are a tool of manipulation and can exist only in distinct environments that produce and support them. In this paper, we will show how artificial prefabricated analytical procedures were used to disseminate false data with the aim of substituting the truth with fraud.展开更多
One of the significant individualities of web-enhanced education is the lack of face-to-face interaction between the student and the educator. A consideration in web-enhanced education which has the probability for et...One of the significant individualities of web-enhanced education is the lack of face-to-face interaction between the student and the educator. A consideration in web-enhanced education which has the probability for ethical concern related to the physical disconnection of instructor and learner is the increased potential for academic dishonesty. This can present a dilemma for nurse educators involved in teaching a difficult curriculum, while it can be motivated to improve the quality and student outcomes related to safe patient-centered care. The most blatant consideration in this setting is plagiarism. This article reviews the various facets of this ethical issue and suggests proactive solutions for faculty and administration to deter academic dishonesty.展开更多
Ethical standards in the context of scientific publications are increasingly gaining attention. A narrative review of the literature concerning publication ethics wasconducted as found in Pub Med, Google Scholar, rele...Ethical standards in the context of scientific publications are increasingly gaining attention. A narrative review of the literature concerning publication ethics wasconducted as found in Pub Med, Google Scholar, relevant news articles, position papers, websites and other sources. The Committee on Publication Ethics has produced guidelines and schedules for the handling of problem situations that have been adopted by professional journals and publishers worldwide as guidelines to authors. The defined requirements go beyond the disclosure of conflicts of interest or the prior registration of clinical trials. Recommendations to authors, editors and publishers of journals and research institutions were formulated with regard to issues of authorship, double publications, plagiarism, and conflicts of interest, with special attention being paid to unethical research behavior and data falsification. This narrative review focusses on ethical publishing in intensive care medicine. As scientific misconduct with data falsification damage patients and society, especially if fraudulent studies are considered important or favor certain therapies and downplay their side effects, it is important to ensure that only studies are published that have been carried out with highest integrity according to predefined criteria. For that also the peer review process has to be conducted in accordance with the highest possible scientific standards and making use of available modern information technology. The review provides the current state of recommendations that are considered to be most relevant particularly in the field of intensive care medicine.展开更多
There are several methods and technologies for comparing the statements, comments, strings, identifiers, and other visible elements of source code in order to efficiently identify similarity. In a prior paper we found...There are several methods and technologies for comparing the statements, comments, strings, identifiers, and other visible elements of source code in order to efficiently identify similarity. In a prior paper we found that comparing the whitespace patterns was not precise enough to identify copying by itself. However, several possible methods for improving the precision of a whitespace pattern comparison were presented, the most promising of which was an examination of the sequences of lines with matching whitespace patterns. This paper demonstrates a method of evaluating the sequences of matching whitespace patterns and a detailed study of the method’s reliability.展开更多
The high-obfuscation plagiarism detection in big data environment,such as the paraphrasing and cross-language plagiarism, is often difficult for anti-plagiarism system because the plagiarism skills are becoming more a...The high-obfuscation plagiarism detection in big data environment,such as the paraphrasing and cross-language plagiarism, is often difficult for anti-plagiarism system because the plagiarism skills are becoming more and more complex. This paper proposes HawkEyes, a plagiarism detection system implemented based on the source retrieval and text alignment algorithms which developed for the international competition on plagiarism detection organized by CLEF. The text alignment algorism in HawkEyes gained the first place in PAN@CLEF2012. In the demonstration, we will present our system implemented on PAN@CLEF2014 training data corpus.展开更多
The problem of high similarity in homework has troubled teachers with time. Previous plagiarism detection systems are mainly realized by string matching which has a limitation, i.e., image homework cannot be detected....The problem of high similarity in homework has troubled teachers with time. Previous plagiarism detection systems are mainly realized by string matching which has a limitation, i.e., image homework cannot be detected. To this issue, we propose a new method of plagiarism detection in homework. First,we get fingerprint features of image homework by converting text homework into images. Then, we use image hashing algorithm and hamming distance to calculate the similarity of these features. Finally, we perform the empirical study on course of Computer Network Experiment, the test shows that our method not only reliably keeps the detection speedily, but also consistently ensures precision and false positive rate.展开更多
Plagiarism is one of the main problems Chinese English majors face in thesis writing. This paper talks about the reasons behind it and then comes up with some ways for college English teachers to help their students b...Plagiarism is one of the main problems Chinese English majors face in thesis writing. This paper talks about the reasons behind it and then comes up with some ways for college English teachers to help their students better understand and avoid plagia?rism.展开更多
For those involved in publishing activities,including authors,editors,peer reviewers and publishers,we should adhere to the concept of publishing ethics.The following is a list of statements on publishing ethics and a...For those involved in publishing activities,including authors,editors,peer reviewers and publishers,we should adhere to the concept of publishing ethics.The following is a list of statements on publishing ethics and academic misconduct for reference.Authors should strictly abide by high standard rules in publishing ethics.Future science press will not accept any plagiarism(production or falsification of data),including works published repeatedly without proper explanation and quotation.展开更多
Based on survey data from 2,531 undergraduates and interview materials from 15 undergraduates,this study explored the mechanism of generative artificial intelligence(GenAI)on college students’creativity.The results s...Based on survey data from 2,531 undergraduates and interview materials from 15 undergraduates,this study explored the mechanism of generative artificial intelligence(GenAI)on college students’creativity.The results showed that GenAI is a double-edged sword,which promotes self-regulated learning among college students while exacerbating academic misconduct such as plagiarism.GenAI does not directly shape college students’creativity.Instead,its impact on students’creativity depends on their self-regulated learning and their awareness of ethical boundaries in the use of GenAI.The key factors leading to GenAI plagiarism and stifling college students’creativity include the tension between the convenience of technology,the utilitarian learning approach fostered by meritocracy,and the contradiction between weak awareness of academic ethics and inadequate supervision.Self-regulated learning can reduce GenAI plagiarism by college students while lessening the negative impact of such GenAI plagiarism on their creativity.It is essential to enhance the self-regulated learning of college students,enable them to deal rationally with intelligent technology,and reduce the inappropriate use of GenAI for leveraging this technology to enhance their creativity.展开更多
Low-resource text plagiarism detection faces a significant challenge due to the limited availability of labeled data for training.This task requires the development of sophisticated algorithms capable of identifying s...Low-resource text plagiarism detection faces a significant challenge due to the limited availability of labeled data for training.This task requires the development of sophisticated algorithms capable of identifying similarities and differences in texts,particularly in the realm of semantic rewriting and translation-based plagiarism detection.In this paper,we present an enhanced attentive Siamese Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM)network designed for Tibetan-Chinese plagiarism detection.Our approach begins with the introduction of translation-based data augmentation,aimed at expanding the bilingual training dataset.Subsequently,we propose a pre-detection method leveraging abstract document vectors to enhance detection efficiency.Finally,we introduce an improved attentive Siamese LSTM network tailored for Tibetan-Chinese plagiarism detection.We conduct comprehensive experiments to showcase the effectiveness of our proposed plagiarism detection framework.展开更多
This study investigates perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism by Chinese ESL students and American students with questionnaire and interview as the main sources of data. It was found that Chinese students exh...This study investigates perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism by Chinese ESL students and American students with questionnaire and interview as the main sources of data. It was found that Chinese students exhibited less knowledge of plagiarism than American students due to a lack of previous instruction. Chinese students showed different perceptions about some cases of plagiarism such as using memorized words without citing, which may have been caused by the emphasis on memorization in Chinese learning culture. However, Chinese students held similar attitudes toward plagiarism; that is, they thought it was morally wrong and should not be tolerated unless it was unintentional. Based on the findings, this paper calls for Chinese scholars to spend more time addressing the problem by making it part of the curriculum.展开更多
Purpose-Natural languages have a fundamental quality of suppleness that makes it possible to present a single idea in plenty of different ways.This feature is often exploited in the academic world,leading to the theft...Purpose-Natural languages have a fundamental quality of suppleness that makes it possible to present a single idea in plenty of different ways.This feature is often exploited in the academic world,leading to the theft of work referred to as plagiarism.Many approaches have been put forward to detect such cases based on various text features and grammatical structures of languages.However,there is a huge scope of improvement for detecting intelligent plagiarism.Design/methodology/approach-To realize this,the paper introduces a hybrid model to detect intelligent plagiarism by breaking the entire process into three stages:(1)clustering,(2)vector formulation in each cluster based on semantic roles,normalization and similarity index calculation and(3)Summary generation using encoder-decoder.An effective weighing scheme has been introduced to select terms used to build vectors based on K-means,which is calculated on the synonym set for the said term.If the value calculated in the last stage lies above a predefined threshold,only then the next semantic argument is analyzed.When the similarity score for two documents is beyond the threshold,a short summary for plagiarized documents is created.Findings-Experimental results show that this method is able to detect connotation and concealment used in idea plagiarism besides detecting literal plagiarism.Originality/value-The proposed model can help academics stay updated by providing summaries of relevant articles.It would eliminate the practice of plagiarism infesting the academic community at an unprecedented pace.The model will also accelerate the process of reviewing academic documents,aiding in the speedy publishing of research articles.展开更多
Advancement in academe is largely on the basis of research output;that is,refereed journal papers.This paper first explores pressures on academics,especially emerging researchers,when English is not a first language.W...Advancement in academe is largely on the basis of research output;that is,refereed journal papers.This paper first explores pressures on academics,especially emerging researchers,when English is not a first language.We assess why,when faculty members rush to improve their station that they may elect to circumvent ethical protocols to accelerate their promotion and status.The resulting unethical behavior includes plagiarism and forms of duplication such as co-submission.Consideration is then given to the wider implications of both plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property,and the role these have played in the development of individuals,the university and society.展开更多
Plagiarism source retrieval is the core task of plagiarism detection. It has become the standard for plagiarism detection to use the queries extracted from suspicious documents to retrieve the plagiarism sources. Gene...Plagiarism source retrieval is the core task of plagiarism detection. It has become the standard for plagiarism detection to use the queries extracted from suspicious documents to retrieve the plagiarism sources. Generating queries from a suspicious document is one of the most important steps in plagiarism source retrieval. Heuristic-based query generation methods are widely used in the current research. Each heuristic-based method has its own advantages, and no one statistically outperforms the others on all suspicious document segments when generating queries for source retrieval. Further improvements on heuristic methods for source retrieval rely mainly on the experience of experts. This leads to difficulties in putting forward new heuristic methods that can overcome the shortcomings of the existing ones. This paper paves the way for a new statistical machine learning approach to select the best queries from the candidates. The statistical machine learning approach to query generation for source retrieval is formulated as a ranking framework. Specifically, it aims to achieve the optimal source retrieval performance for each suspicious document segment. The proposed method exploits learning to rank to generate queries from the candidates. To our knowledge, our work is the first research to apply machine learning methods to resolve the problem of query generation for source retrieval. To solve the essential problem of an absence of training data for learning to rank, the building of training samples for source retrieval is also conducted. We rigorously evaluate various aspects of the proposed method on the publicly available PAN source retrieval corpus. With respect to the established baselines, the experimental results show that applying our proposed query generation method based on machine learning yields statistically significant improvements over baselines in source retrieval effectiveness.展开更多
文摘Unethical behavior among university students such as cheating and plagiarism has weakened the character of honesty in education. This fact has challenged those who perceived education as a holistic process of internalizing values and norms that lead to the formation of students＇ moral principles and moral behaviour. Educators have played the role of ensuring the students to internalize and realized moral values and norms. A study of 360 students of the second semester who enrolled at the course of ＂ethical and personal development＂ at Atma Jaya Catholic University in Indonesia showed that unethical behavior such as cheating and plagiarism were rarely done. However, a deep look at the reason the students did academic dishonesty has prompted the permissiveness of student＇s moral life. This study proves that academic integrity among university students is worrisome, and it is worsened by the fact that they were enrolled in the course of ＂ethical and personal development＂. Seriously taking into consideration the strong desire of students to change the culture of academic misconduct, the authors argue that an educational model which is not oriented excessively to cognitive performance is needed. The authors argue that this position has to be practiced in line with the involvement of ＂clean＂ students who are involved as role models in influencing the formation of student awareness and ethical behavior.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(70373047)
文摘We proposed a flexible anti-plagiarism system model based on user-defined plagiarism standards. We also proposed PlagLazy and format-legacy phenomena that plagiarist will remain format-legacy such as soft-enter symbol in his DOC document after plagiarizing material from web and corresponding optimized algorithm which improves the speed of comparison. Our model is suitable for the anti-plagiarism and monitoring of large document collections, and it can also be used in digital library, E-learning and other fields.
文摘Elements of correspondence (“coincidences”) between a student’s solutions to an assigned set of quantitative problems and the solutions manual for the course textbook may suggest that the stu-dent copied the work from an illicit source. Plagiarism of this kind, which occurs primarily in fields such as the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, is often difficult to establish. This paper derives an expression for the probability that alleged coincidences in a student’s paper could be attributable to pure chance. The analysis employs the Principle of Maximum Entropy (PME), which, mathematically, is a variational procedure requiring maximization of the Shannon-Jaynes entropy function augmented by the completeness relation for probabilities and known information in the form of expectation values. The virtue of the PME as a general method of inferential reasoning is that it generates the most objective (i.e. least biased) probability distribution consistent with the given information. Numerical examination of test cases for a range of plausible conditions can yield outcomes that tend to exonerate a student who otherwise might be wrongfully judged guilty of cheating by adjudicators unfamiliar with the surprising properties of random processes.
基金supported by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (Grant No.2021-I2M-1-033)。
文摘Purpose:To reveal the typical features of text duplication in papers from four medical fields:basic medicine,health management,pharmacology and pharmacy,and public health and preventive medicine.To analyze the reasons for duplication and provide suggestions for the management of medical academic misconduct.Design/methodology/approach:In total,2,469 representative Chinese journal papers were included in our research,which were submitted by researchers in 2020 and 2021.A plagiarism check was carried out using the Academic Misconduct Literature Check System(AMLC).We generated a corrected similarity index based on the AMLC general similarity index for further analysis.We compared the similarity indices of papers in four medical fields and revealed their trends over time;differences in similarity index between review and research articles were also analyzed according to the different fields.Further analysis of 143 papers suspected of plagiarism was also performed from the perspective of sections containing duplication and according to the field of research.Findings:Papers in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy had the highest similarity index(8.67±5.92%),which was significantly higher than that in other fields,except health management.The similarity index of review articles(9.77±10.28%)was significantly higher than that of research articles(7.41±6.26%).In total,143 papers were suspected of plagiarism(5.80%)with similarity indices≥15%;most were papers on health management(78,54.55%),followed by public health and preventive medicine(38,26.58%);90.21%of the 143 papers had duplication in multiple sections,while only 9.79%had duplication in a single section.The distribution of sections with duplication varied among different fields;papers in pharmacology and pharmacy were more likely to have duplication in the data/methods and introduction/background sections,however,papers in health management were more likely to contain duplication in the introduction/background or results/discussion sections.Different structures for papers in different fields may have caused these differences.Research limitations:There were three limitations to our research.Firstly,we observed that a small number of papers have been checked early.It is unknown who conducted the plagiarism check as this can be included in other evaluations,such as applications for Science and technology projects or awards.If the authors carried out the check,text with high similarity indices may have been excluded before submission,meaning the similarity index in our research may have been lower than the original value.Secondly,there were only four medical fields included in our research.Additional analysis on a wider scale is required in the future.Thirdly,only a general similarity index was calculated in our study;other similarity indices were not tested.Practical implications:A comprehensive analysis of similarity indices in four medical fields was performed.We made several recommendations for the supervision of medical academic misconduct and the formation of criteria for defining suspected plagiarism for medical papers,as well as for the improved accuracy of text duplication checks.Originality/value:We quantified the differences between the AMLC general similarity index and the corrected index,described the situation around text duplication and plagiarism in papers from four medical fields,and revealed differences in similarity indices between different article types.We also revealed differences in the sections containing duplication for papers with suspected plagiarism among different fields.
文摘In 2012, the first paper in the series Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications was published in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. This paper was mainly based on evidence presented in the 2011 in book Historical Overview of Chromatography and Related Techniques in Analysis of Antimalarial Drug Primaquine (editor Ilia Brondz, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ISSN 978-1-61761-944-1). The first paper in this series di- scussed issues of obvious falsification and plagiarism contained in paper published by Dongre et al., Applications of GC-EI-MS for the Identification and Investigation of Positional Isomer in Primaquine, an Antimalarial Drug. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2005, pp. 111-116. Dongre et al. copied their publication from an original research manuscript submitted for consideration by other authors. This paper was published in the Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 1678-1688. Conclusive arguments against the publication of Dongre et al. were presented in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. Further cases of general plagiarism and incompetence relating to authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers were presented in Part II in Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications Part II: The Authors’, Reviewers’, Editors’ Responsibility and the Publishers’ Authority in the International Journal of Analytical Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013, pp. 81-89. The present paper will discuss the following issues: the obvious neglect of the rights of authors by some publishers and editors;how original research manuscripts are exposed to mediocre researchers, and possibly sold, by editors to these “scientists” to boost the image of these particular “scientists”;how the order of authors’ names in published articles are changed to satisfy the commercial interests of companies;and how copyright is breached in an appalling way by well-established publishers. The documents presented here concern research publications in the fields of chromatography, chromatography-mass spectrometry, and mass spectrometry.
文摘Despite the obvious frauds published in [1] [2] and the involvement of Editors and Editors in Chief of the journals in the publication of these fraudulent papers, the Editors in Chief of publishers have not taken any action to retract the fraudulent papers or to dismiss the corrupt editors. By this passivity, these Editors in Chief are supporting plagiarism, dissemination of fraudulent data, lies and making published information unreliable. In the present paper, we evaluate examples of bold, fraudulent publications and give the names of some Editors directly participating in concealing fraudulent publications, together with the names of Editors in Chief who also concealed and covered the facts of fraud and were reluctant to remove the fraudulent papers from circulation or to remove cheaters from editorial positions. The truth is universal and international;in contrast, the lie is individual and partisan, social, political, confessional, cultural and dirty. Knowledge is a truth that is part of the Universe. Lies are a tool of manipulation and can exist only in distinct environments that produce and support them. In this paper, we will show how artificial prefabricated analytical procedures were used to disseminate false data with the aim of substituting the truth with fraud.
文摘One of the significant individualities of web-enhanced education is the lack of face-to-face interaction between the student and the educator. A consideration in web-enhanced education which has the probability for ethical concern related to the physical disconnection of instructor and learner is the increased potential for academic dishonesty. This can present a dilemma for nurse educators involved in teaching a difficult curriculum, while it can be motivated to improve the quality and student outcomes related to safe patient-centered care. The most blatant consideration in this setting is plagiarism. This article reviews the various facets of this ethical issue and suggests proactive solutions for faculty and administration to deter academic dishonesty.
文摘Ethical standards in the context of scientific publications are increasingly gaining attention. A narrative review of the literature concerning publication ethics wasconducted as found in Pub Med, Google Scholar, relevant news articles, position papers, websites and other sources. The Committee on Publication Ethics has produced guidelines and schedules for the handling of problem situations that have been adopted by professional journals and publishers worldwide as guidelines to authors. The defined requirements go beyond the disclosure of conflicts of interest or the prior registration of clinical trials. Recommendations to authors, editors and publishers of journals and research institutions were formulated with regard to issues of authorship, double publications, plagiarism, and conflicts of interest, with special attention being paid to unethical research behavior and data falsification. This narrative review focusses on ethical publishing in intensive care medicine. As scientific misconduct with data falsification damage patients and society, especially if fraudulent studies are considered important or favor certain therapies and downplay their side effects, it is important to ensure that only studies are published that have been carried out with highest integrity according to predefined criteria. For that also the peer review process has to be conducted in accordance with the highest possible scientific standards and making use of available modern information technology. The review provides the current state of recommendations that are considered to be most relevant particularly in the field of intensive care medicine.
文摘There are several methods and technologies for comparing the statements, comments, strings, identifiers, and other visible elements of source code in order to efficiently identify similarity. In a prior paper we found that comparing the whitespace patterns was not precise enough to identify copying by itself. However, several possible methods for improving the precision of a whitespace pattern comparison were presented, the most promising of which was an examination of the sequences of lines with matching whitespace patterns. This paper demonstrates a method of evaluating the sequences of matching whitespace patterns and a detailed study of the method’s reliability.
文摘The high-obfuscation plagiarism detection in big data environment,such as the paraphrasing and cross-language plagiarism, is often difficult for anti-plagiarism system because the plagiarism skills are becoming more and more complex. This paper proposes HawkEyes, a plagiarism detection system implemented based on the source retrieval and text alignment algorithms which developed for the international competition on plagiarism detection organized by CLEF. The text alignment algorism in HawkEyes gained the first place in PAN@CLEF2012. In the demonstration, we will present our system implemented on PAN@CLEF2014 training data corpus.
文摘The problem of high similarity in homework has troubled teachers with time. Previous plagiarism detection systems are mainly realized by string matching which has a limitation, i.e., image homework cannot be detected. To this issue, we propose a new method of plagiarism detection in homework. First,we get fingerprint features of image homework by converting text homework into images. Then, we use image hashing algorithm and hamming distance to calculate the similarity of these features. Finally, we perform the empirical study on course of Computer Network Experiment, the test shows that our method not only reliably keeps the detection speedily, but also consistently ensures precision and false positive rate.
文摘Plagiarism is one of the main problems Chinese English majors face in thesis writing. This paper talks about the reasons behind it and then comes up with some ways for college English teachers to help their students better understand and avoid plagia?rism.
文摘For those involved in publishing activities,including authors,editors,peer reviewers and publishers,we should adhere to the concept of publishing ethics.The following is a list of statements on publishing ethics and academic misconduct for reference.Authors should strictly abide by high standard rules in publishing ethics.Future science press will not accept any plagiarism(production or falsification of data),including works published repeatedly without proper explanation and quotation.
基金funded by the program of the Youth Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China,“Diversification of Jobs for Doctoral Graduates Focused on Academic Research:Macrostructure and Trends”(No.24YJC880136)the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Nanjing Agricultural University based on the Basic Research Funding for Universities Directly Managed by Central Authorities(No.SKYC2024007).
文摘Based on survey data from 2,531 undergraduates and interview materials from 15 undergraduates,this study explored the mechanism of generative artificial intelligence(GenAI)on college students’creativity.The results showed that GenAI is a double-edged sword,which promotes self-regulated learning among college students while exacerbating academic misconduct such as plagiarism.GenAI does not directly shape college students’creativity.Instead,its impact on students’creativity depends on their self-regulated learning and their awareness of ethical boundaries in the use of GenAI.The key factors leading to GenAI plagiarism and stifling college students’creativity include the tension between the convenience of technology,the utilitarian learning approach fostered by meritocracy,and the contradiction between weak awareness of academic ethics and inadequate supervision.Self-regulated learning can reduce GenAI plagiarism by college students while lessening the negative impact of such GenAI plagiarism on their creativity.It is essential to enhance the self-regulated learning of college students,enable them to deal rationally with intelligent technology,and reduce the inappropriate use of GenAI for leveraging this technology to enhance their creativity.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62271456)the Open Projects Program of State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems.
文摘Low-resource text plagiarism detection faces a significant challenge due to the limited availability of labeled data for training.This task requires the development of sophisticated algorithms capable of identifying similarities and differences in texts,particularly in the realm of semantic rewriting and translation-based plagiarism detection.In this paper,we present an enhanced attentive Siamese Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM)network designed for Tibetan-Chinese plagiarism detection.Our approach begins with the introduction of translation-based data augmentation,aimed at expanding the bilingual training dataset.Subsequently,we propose a pre-detection method leveraging abstract document vectors to enhance detection efficiency.Finally,we introduce an improved attentive Siamese LSTM network tailored for Tibetan-Chinese plagiarism detection.We conduct comprehensive experiments to showcase the effectiveness of our proposed plagiarism detection framework.
文摘This study investigates perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism by Chinese ESL students and American students with questionnaire and interview as the main sources of data. It was found that Chinese students exhibited less knowledge of plagiarism than American students due to a lack of previous instruction. Chinese students showed different perceptions about some cases of plagiarism such as using memorized words without citing, which may have been caused by the emphasis on memorization in Chinese learning culture. However, Chinese students held similar attitudes toward plagiarism; that is, they thought it was morally wrong and should not be tolerated unless it was unintentional. Based on the findings, this paper calls for Chinese scholars to spend more time addressing the problem by making it part of the curriculum.
基金This work is supported by Technical Education Quality Program-TEQIP III.The project is implemented by NPIU,which is a unit of MHRD,Govt of India for implementation of world bank assisted projects in Technical Education.
文摘Purpose-Natural languages have a fundamental quality of suppleness that makes it possible to present a single idea in plenty of different ways.This feature is often exploited in the academic world,leading to the theft of work referred to as plagiarism.Many approaches have been put forward to detect such cases based on various text features and grammatical structures of languages.However,there is a huge scope of improvement for detecting intelligent plagiarism.Design/methodology/approach-To realize this,the paper introduces a hybrid model to detect intelligent plagiarism by breaking the entire process into three stages:(1)clustering,(2)vector formulation in each cluster based on semantic roles,normalization and similarity index calculation and(3)Summary generation using encoder-decoder.An effective weighing scheme has been introduced to select terms used to build vectors based on K-means,which is calculated on the synonym set for the said term.If the value calculated in the last stage lies above a predefined threshold,only then the next semantic argument is analyzed.When the similarity score for two documents is beyond the threshold,a short summary for plagiarized documents is created.Findings-Experimental results show that this method is able to detect connotation and concealment used in idea plagiarism besides detecting literal plagiarism.Originality/value-The proposed model can help academics stay updated by providing summaries of relevant articles.It would eliminate the practice of plagiarism infesting the academic community at an unprecedented pace.The model will also accelerate the process of reviewing academic documents,aiding in the speedy publishing of research articles.
文摘Advancement in academe is largely on the basis of research output;that is,refereed journal papers.This paper first explores pressures on academics,especially emerging researchers,when English is not a first language.We assess why,when faculty members rush to improve their station that they may elect to circumvent ethical protocols to accelerate their promotion and status.The resulting unethical behavior includes plagiarism and forms of duplication such as co-submission.Consideration is then given to the wider implications of both plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property,and the role these have played in the development of individuals,the university and society.
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.14CTQ032)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61370170)
文摘Plagiarism source retrieval is the core task of plagiarism detection. It has become the standard for plagiarism detection to use the queries extracted from suspicious documents to retrieve the plagiarism sources. Generating queries from a suspicious document is one of the most important steps in plagiarism source retrieval. Heuristic-based query generation methods are widely used in the current research. Each heuristic-based method has its own advantages, and no one statistically outperforms the others on all suspicious document segments when generating queries for source retrieval. Further improvements on heuristic methods for source retrieval rely mainly on the experience of experts. This leads to difficulties in putting forward new heuristic methods that can overcome the shortcomings of the existing ones. This paper paves the way for a new statistical machine learning approach to select the best queries from the candidates. The statistical machine learning approach to query generation for source retrieval is formulated as a ranking framework. Specifically, it aims to achieve the optimal source retrieval performance for each suspicious document segment. The proposed method exploits learning to rank to generate queries from the candidates. To our knowledge, our work is the first research to apply machine learning methods to resolve the problem of query generation for source retrieval. To solve the essential problem of an absence of training data for learning to rank, the building of training samples for source retrieval is also conducted. We rigorously evaluate various aspects of the proposed method on the publicly available PAN source retrieval corpus. With respect to the established baselines, the experimental results show that applying our proposed query generation method based on machine learning yields statistically significant improvements over baselines in source retrieval effectiveness.
