RE: [tips] Self-plagiarism loose in Canada

2010-12-12 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
Don't miss the link to the apparent self-plagiarism database drawn from Medline http://spore.vbi.vt.edu/dejavu/ It is astonishing the amount of this that appears to have been happening over the years. A student of mine came across a case essentially similar to those in that database when he

Re: [tips] Self-plagiarism loose in Canada

2010-12-12 Thread Jim Clark
Hi One issue I would have with the article is the mention of 79,000 PAIRS of articles with duplicate text, which gives an impression that appears to be wildly out of line with the demonstrated instances of duplicate publication. I think the large number is a product of at least two factors: