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Professor plagiarizes prostate cancer imaging review paper and blames ghost writer. (retractionwatch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One isn't much better than the other lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not quite what I was taught. It is possible to self-plagiarise, plagiarism only needs to be reproduction of a work with the claim it is your own original work.

I still think that's a ploy by journal publishers to prevent losing their exclusive extortion abilities, but that doesn't really make much difference to the end result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Self-plagiarism to me is more of a related but separately defined term from "true plagiarism," but defining it based on work rather than author does make a lot of sense.