Dear Sally,
as this and other comments show, there is an enormous difference
between the practical level of operation
of the conventional system and what it might be able to do at its best.
Unfortunately, I suspect the same will be true of the replacement or
supplementary system(s).
The
Just to put plagiarism in perspective:
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
Jan
Martin Blume wrote:
We would of course have pursued this on behalf of the authors of
the plagiarized article if they had retained copyright. But this
wouldn't work if the paper were in the public domain. I can point to
three different papers in the past six months where we used copyright
as
Sally
Are there statistics on how often and through what means scientific journals
detect and pursue plagiarism?
These would be very useful to help frame these discussions, as would some
concrete examples that demonstrate the role that copyright plays in these
actions. It seems like you would be
dear Sally,
I have on my desk papers, published in highly esteemed physics journals,
which are 80% Latex-identical, and still this has passed the referees
and the publishers.
(In a few cases it is even the same publisher and journal, could have
been the same referee even!!).
Thus a plagiarism
At 09:58 AM 7/23/2003 -0700, Michael Eisen asked:
Are there statistics on how often and through what means scientific journals
detect and pursue plagiarism?
These would be very useful to help frame these discussions, as would some
concrete examples that demonstrate the role that copyright plays
