Text recycling: acceptable or misconduct?

BMC Medicine

Jigisha Patel¹  Stephanie Harriman¹ 

[1] BioMed Central, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB, UK

关键词: Guidelines;    Transparency;    Publication ethics;    Self-plagiarism;    Text recycling;   

Others  :  1121540
DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-014-0148-8

 received in 2014-08-08, accepted in 2014-08-08,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Text recycling, also referred to as self-plagiarism, is the reproduction of an author’s own text from a previous publication in a new publication. Opinions on the acceptability of this practice vary, with some viewing it as acceptable and efficient, and others as misleading and unacceptable. In light of the lack of consensus, journal editors often have difficulty deciding how to act upon the discovery of text recycling. In response to these difficulties, we have created a set of guidelines for journal editors on how to deal with text recycling. In this editorial, we discuss some of the challenges of developing these guidelines, and how authors can avoid undisclosed text recycling.

The guidelines can be found here: http://media.biomedcentral.com/content/editorial/BMC-text-recycling-editorial_guidelines.pdf webcite

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Harriman and Patel; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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