Abstract

AN OVERVIEW OF PLAGIARISM ITS ASPECTS ACROSS THE GLOBE

Dadarwal D.*, Kapoor D. and Vyas R. B.

Abstract

Unethical issues are quickly increasing in the realm of science. In the future, such issues in gathering data, cooperation between scientists and in publications will most probably get more complicated and more difficult to deal with. More than ever before, postgraduate medical students should know about methods, technologies and concepts of science. Plagiarism is one of the significant issues of universities in recent years. In the last two decades, the improvement in computer technology, that is, running websites to supply university services, the copy paste tool, and loads of pre-fabricated papers, has made for an boost in plagiarism. Misconduct means construction, distortion, copy or any other practice that seriously deviates from practices commonly accepted in the discipline or in the educational and research communities generally in proposing, performing, reviewing, or reporting research and inventive activities. In view of the pervasiveness of copying in the scientific community and its shattering effects on scientific progress, this review mainly consider at surveying the concepts, causes and solutions to the issue of plagiarism.

Keywords: ICMJE, Copytracker, Turnitin, COPE, Selfplagiarism, Mosaic plagiarism.