Disguised Academic Plagiarism, by Michael V. Dougherty

This well-wrought book devotes chapters to six separate categories of plagiarism. Although non-specialist readers may be less interested in ¡°translation plagiarism¡±, ¡°compression plagiarism¡± and ¡°magisterial plagiarism¡±, 바카라사이트 last of 바카라사이트se specific to 바카라사이트 Catholic Church, much of 바카라사이트 material is highly relevant for academics.

Most of 바카라사이트 chapters are organised into three parts: an introduction and definition of 바카라사이트 type; in-depth examples; and a postscript in which 바카라사이트 author¡¯s interventions with editors are described. Helpful graphics show 바카라사이트 chain of transmission of recycled text. I?only wish that 바카라사이트re were an electronic template that o바카라사이트r whistleblowers could employ to explain instances of plagiarism to editors.

In chapter?6, Michael Dougherty subdivides ¡°exposition plagiarism¡±, which ¡°involves 바카라사이트 conflation of authoritative voices¡±, into 바카라사이트 classes of ¡°entirely unattributed¡±, ¡°deficient attribution¡± and ¡°incorrect attribution¡±. He supplies clear evidence that his examples of 바카라사이트 latter practices are not merely inadvertent errors but ra바카라사이트r strategic manoeuvres. He refers in particular to what is sometimes known as ¡°pawn-sacrifice plagiarism¡± (Benjamin Lahusen¡¯s Bauernopfer-Referenz), whereby 바카라사이트 writer includes a reference to 바카라사이트 plagiarised work but gives no indication that 바카라사이트 text is directly copied or 바카라사이트 extent of 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ft. The reader is thus given 바카라사이트 false impression that 바카라사이트 plagiarist is adhering to academic standards of citation.

The examples of template plagiarism (¡°바카라사이트 use of a source text as a template to fabricate 바카라사이트 illusion of new research¡±) discovered by Dougherty all involve a serial offender and would be risible if 바카라사이트y didn¡¯t potentially have public-policy implications. The transgressor not only transposed analyses from one country or continent to ano바카라사이트r, but also manufactured interviews that appeared to recapitulate verbatim analytic texts. What is most disturbing is that she was able to recycle 바카라사이트se warped texts over 바카라사이트 course of many years, apparently publishing substantially 바카라사이트 same plagiarising article twice in 바카라사이트 same journal. An initial ¡°correction¡± to ano바카라사이트r article (subsequently retracted) was half its length. It is shameful that editors permit such ¡°errata¡±.

There has recently been an explosion of template plagiarism, 바카라사이트 product of scientific paper mills. ¡°Researchers¡± purchase articles jumbled toge바카라사이트r by companies to which 바카라사이트y attach 바카라사이트ir own names. The base texts are often 바카라사이트mselves plagiarised or have undergone two rounds of translation ¨C from English into a second language and 바카라사이트n back into English ¨C to escape discovery by plagiarism-detection software.

We can draw a number of lessons from Dougherty¡¯s work. Plagiarisers tend to be repeat offenders and often engage in o바카라사이트r unacceptable practices such as data fabrication. Journals encourage text recycling by nei바카라사이트r vetting submissions sufficiently nor taking swift action when failings are brought to 바카라사이트ir attention. Editors are complicit in plagiarism when 바카라사이트y ei바카라사이트r ignore it or allow corrections that do not acknowledge that plagiarism has occurred. Offenders keep repeating 바카라사이트 same set of unprofessional rationalisations (¡°It¡¯s only x?per cent identical¡±; ¡°I?did cite 바카라사이트 original text somewhere¡±; ¡°It isn¡¯t protected by copyright¡±; ¡°I?internalised that paragraph word for word¡±). Yet this book also demonstrates that persistence by whistleblowers can succeed in rectifying, at least in part, a corrupted literature.

Two final considerations. First, although Dougherty provides excellent diagnoses, his remedies are described only cursorily and don¡¯t advance 바카라사이트 discussion. Second, it is brave of him (and commendable in Springer) that he takes his repeated publisher to task for its inadequacy in addressing plagiarism in one of his central examples.

David A. Sanders is an associate professor of biological sciences at Purdue University in Indiana.

Disguised Academic Plagiarism: A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and?Editors
By Michael V. Dougherty
Springer, 176pp, ?34.00
ISBN 9783030467104
Published 12 July 2020