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|Title=The Extent and Causes of Academic Text Recycling or ‘Self-Plagiarism’ | |Title=The Extent and Causes of Academic Text Recycling or ‘Self-Plagiarism’ | ||
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| − | |Important Because=<br /> | + | |Important Because=The current article suggests that text recycling may lead to an unfair advantage in our current scientific working environment, which values the number of publications of an individual researcher and awards grants and funding accordingly. In this system, scientists that engage in text recycling are rewarded more for their work than scientists that do not recycle their texts. Although some argue that text recycling cannot be classified as scientific misconduct, there are now policies and guidelines that contain regulations on text recycling.<ref>Harriman, S., Patel, J. Text recycling: acceptable or misconduct?. ''BMC Med'' '''12, '''148 (2014). <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0148-8</nowiki></ref><ref>Callahan JL. Creation of a Moral Panic? Self-Plagiarism in the Academy. Human Resource Development Review. 2014;13(1):3-10. doi:10.1177/1534484313519063 |
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| + | <br /></ref> The research discussed here shows that the incidence of problematic text recycling is considerable and higher than other forms of scientific misconduct, such as plagiarism and fabrication. In addition, it gives insight in its possible causes and the influence of policy and journal editors on this practice. Therefore, it may help to develop better policies to prevent problematic text recycling. | ||
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|Has Virtue And Value=Honesty; Respect | |Has Virtue And Value=Honesty; Respect | ||
|Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Plagiarism; Self-plagiarism | |Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Plagiarism; Self-plagiarism | ||
| − | |Related To Research Area=Economics and business | + | |Related To Research Area=Economics and business; LS 01 - Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry |
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ResourcesThe Extent and Causes of Academic Text Recycling or ‘Self-Plagiarism’
What is this about?
This is a factual case. This research article first gives a short overview of a prominent case of text recycling or ‘self-plagiarism’ by the Dutch economist Peter Nijkamp. From this case, the authors have formulated several hypotheses about the extend and the possible correlates of text recycling in the Dutch scientific fields of biochemistry & molecular cell biology, economics, history, and psychology.
Why is this important?
The current article suggests that text recycling may lead to an unfair advantage in our current scientific working environment, which values the number of publications of an individual researcher and awards grants and funding accordingly. In this system, scientists that engage in text recycling are rewarded more for their work than scientists that do not recycle their texts. Although some argue that text recycling cannot be classified as scientific misconduct, there are now policies and guidelines that contain regulations on text recycling.[1][2] The research discussed here shows that the incidence of problematic text recycling is considerable and higher than other forms of scientific misconduct, such as plagiarism and fabrication. In addition, it gives insight in its possible causes and the influence of policy and journal editors on this practice. Therefore, it may help to develop better policies to prevent problematic text recycling.
