Volume: Vol4, Issue 2/2015

Published on: Jun 2015

Contains 17 articles

Coping with copying

Authors

WOLFGANG GLÄNZEL ^*,1, TIBOR BRAUN ², ANDRÁS SCHUBERT ², GUIDO ZOSIMO-LANDOLFO ³

Affiliation

¹ECOOM and Department of MSI
²Hungarian Academy of Sciences
³Sprin ger, Cham, Switzerland

If somebody spends several decades in the world of scientific publishing as author, referee and editor, it is difficult to evade certain ethical issues. Researchers are fallible humans, after all, not free of vices like vanity, envy or jealousy. The range is wide from slightly tendentious selection among data to rudely falsified results, from distrait overlooking relevant results of concurrent groups, through cryptomnesia, ‘‘an unconscious plagiarism in which creative ideas expressed as new are actually unrecalled memories of another’s idea’’ (Garfield 1985, p. 407) to straight plagiarism.

Keywords

Author, referee, editor

Pages

124-126

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