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How to stop plagiarism

NaturePublished 3 January 2012Open access
Citations27
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score18.29
SNIP10.16
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Abstract

SOCIOLOGY Collective quality control is central to digital-era science p.25 PHYSICS The standard model is broken, whether or not the Higgs boson exists p.24 How to stop plagiarism Duplication is easily detected by software, yet it remains a problem.Ten experts explain how to stamp it out.HAROLD GARNER Flag plagiarized studies Founder of HelioText, and creator of eTBLAST plagiarism-detection software When my colleagues and I introduced an automated process to spot similar citations in the Medline database, we uncovered more than 150 cases of potential plagiarism in March 2009 (ref.1).Subsequent ethics investigations resulted in 56 retractions within a few months.However, as of December 2011, 12 (21%) of those 'retracted' papers are still

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