Abstract
This paper reports on the preliminary findings from a pilot project which sought to identify self-plagiarism in Australian academic publications. Ten Australian authors were selected at random from top published authors on the Web of Science (Social Science and Humanities) database. Evidence of textual re-use was collected from 269 electronically available published journal articles using the text matching software program, Turnitin. Self-plagiarism was defined for this study as “10% or more textual re-use of any one previous publication by the author without attribution”. The preliminary findings suggest that textual re-use is widespread in academic research, with 60% of the authors in the sample having committed self-plagiarism in at least one of their published papers in the period 2003-2006.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 92-103 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Plagiary |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 5 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |