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Anita
24 May, 2024This paper is good and effectively highlights a significant issue and proposes viable solutions, making a valuable contribution to the discourse on maintaining the integrity of academic publishing.
Monika koul
24 May, 2024It is sad that academic community is resorting to such practices. Academia needs to understand that originality is the key and upholding ethics is important
Eduardo Armienta Aldana
24 May, 2024New technologies such as AI should be tools to make scientific work easier, but many have used them for the opposite. What all this new technology is generating is that pseudoscientists abuse it and try to deceive those of us who really do research. My opinion is that we should control these types of tools more.
Guillermo Cano-Verdugo
24 May, 2024
The recent discovery of plagiarism in peer-review reports is deeply troubling and raises serious concerns about the integrity of academic research. It is disheartening to think that the very process designed to uphold scholarly standards and ensure the credibility of scientific work is being compromised. This misconduct not only undermines the trust in published research but also devalues the efforts of honest researchers. It is imperative that academic institutions and journals take stringent measures to detect and prevent such unethical behavior. Upholding the integrity of the peer-review process is essential for maintaining the quality and reliability of academic literature.
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Dr. Md. Jasim Uddin
25 May, 2024I support to apply plagiarism software to maintain our dignity and may discouragse them who are adulterated.
Mridul M. Panditrao
25 May, 2024
Shocking trend, to say the least. The sacrosanct pedestals such as 'Peer- reviewing' being breached by such unethicality is really alarming. Being a peer-reviewer for multiples of medical journals, I appreciate the gravity of the situation. This can have serious implications for the research in all the fields, more so in Medicine.
A plausible solution is, All the publication houses, editors and others concerned with delegating the responsibility of appointing the 'peer-reviewers' may have to create a mechanism bu which the prospective or existing peer-reviewer is made accountable for ethical behavior on thier part, by submission of a declaration, with built-in clauses of penalization/ informing misconduct to their employment organizations or black-listing them in future from submission of their own work. I am aware, that there is a downside to this, but some drastic measures / deterrent mechanisms are necessary in these testing times of generalized loss of ethical values!
Dr. Adel S Al-Zubairi
25 May, 2024
Plagiarizm is the fast way for paper Mills of wide range of authors who are looking for large publishing in order to increase their ranks. However, in the present era AI is making a huge changes in discovery of such work as well as in manupulating such plagiarised materials.
A big responsibilities lied on reviewers to stop such publication from being falsify the scientific society.
Tamer Ibrahim Abdel-Wahab
26 May, 2024
Plagiarism is using someone else's work or ideas without proper credit. This includes copying text, paraphrasing without citation, or presenting others' ideas as your own. Plagiarism is unethical and can result in severe consequences in academic and professional contexts. Properly citing sources and acknowledging original authors is crucial to avoid plagiarism. In academic settings, plagiarism can lead to failing grades, suspension, or expulsion. Professionally, it can harm one's reputation and credibility, impacting job prospects or legal issues. Upholding academic integrity and ethical conduct is vital to prevent the negative outcomes of plagiarism. Demonstrating integrity in academic and professional endeavors is key for personal and career advancement. By consistently practicing ethical behavior and citing sources accurately, individuals can establish a reputation for trustworthiness and dependability.
Sylvester Ogbodo
27 May, 2024Plagiarism has made many works monotonous, and when the score is high, it portrays the writer as non-serious author who depends on other peoples' creative art to reap where he/she did not sow. However, I believe that regarding phrases of two to five words as plagiarism will be too tight for scientific community. Worst still is employing the use of AI which will detect phrases of two words or even compound words that have no hyphen as "plagia". Ultimately, the reviewer should be allowed to take his/her own initiative.
Bhupinder Dhir
29 May, 2024I agree that all the authors/researchers should avoid any kind of plagiarism in their contributions. Myself being an author and researcher also cannot deny the fact that sometimes some level of plagiarism cannot be removed because of the facts or bibliography.
Olu
09 October, 2024Plagiarism remains a cankerworm in academic publication and research. I used https://www.similaritycheck.com.ng Here, I can tell the system to ignore bibliography and some trivial words or phrase that I know is generic all over the world and in the field am working on. It shows the source of the content of the document plagiarized etc.
Khelladi Hadj Mostefa
24 May, 2024Greeting
I completely agree, plagiarism constitutes a major problem in the authenticity of scientific documents, especially with the advent of artificial intelligence. However, the use of plagia detection software can be restrictive for authors, for example there is anti-plagia software which is very restrictive, which has little effect on the quality of the writing, for example the term cardiovascular diseases is considered plagia, although it is a term that cannot be replaced.
In my opinion, we must always leave the final decision to the evaluator, that is to say the human being, because if we give the final decision to software (AI) it will have a negative impact on the quality of the articles writing , and facilitate fraud.