Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Plagiarism and Factors Contributing to Plagiarism: a Review of Studies

Husain, Fauzilah Md; Al-Shaibani, Ghayth K. Shaker; Mahfoodh, Omer Hassan Ali

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“…From a broader perspective, PhD holders’ views that corroborate the idea that plagiarism is only an error but not misconduct may be propagating misperceptions about the problem that persist from their early grade-school years ( 63,64 ). One concern is perpetuating these views in mentor/mentee relationships.…”

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“…This endorsement bias would lead to the so-called primacy effect, i.e. , the tendency for choosing the option provided first, irrespective of being positive or negative ( 64 ). However, as Liu and Keusch (2017) ( 67 ) have shown, “empirical studies report mixed findings with regard to the influence of the direction of rating scales on response”.…”

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Plagiarism in Brazil: A perspective of 25,000 PhD holders across the sciences

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Sorenson

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When it comes to ownership of ideas in science, Robert K. Merton (1957) observed in Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science that "what is true of physics, chemistry, astronomy, medicine and mathematics is true also of all the other scientific disciplines, not excluding the social and psychological sciences". However, consensus over related issues, such as what constitutes plagiarism in these fields cannot be taken for granted. We conducted a comprehensive study on plagiarism views among PhD holders registered in the database of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). We collected 25,157 valid responses encompassing views and attitudes toward plagiarism from a probability sample of PhD holders across the fields, including biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers as well as linguists, philosophers and anthropologists. The results suggest that core principles about plagiarism are shared among this multidisciplinary community and that they corroborate Merton's observations. Before this study, we could only speculate that this is the case. With these data from a probability sample of Brazilian academia (PhD holders), this study offers insight into the way plagiarism is perceived across the sciences, including the literature and arts, and sheds light on the problem in the context of international collaborative research networks. The data focus on a young research system in Latin America, but, given the cultural similarities that bind most Latin-American nations, these results may be relevant to other PhD populations in the region and should provide a comparison with studies from other emerging, non-Anglophone regions.American (LA) region, little is known about plagiarism per se in the research arena. Among the few analyses focusing on the publication system, one study that looked at the main Latin American databases SciELO and LILACS (25) shows that plagiarism accounts for the highest percentage of retractions: 86% of retraction notices in journals not listed by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and 43% in JCR journals, from 2008 to 2014. These percentages are much higher than those usually found in similar studies for the Web of . Whether this result means that Latin American editors are stricter with plagiarism than those from the US and Europe, for example, is an open question. Irrespective of this underexplored problem, LA countries such as Argentina, Chile, and Brazil have broadened their international collaborative research networks with many Anglophone and Asian countries (29,30). In these multicultural collaborative endeavors, shaped by a changing landscape for doing and communicating science, operating within similar research integrity frameworks is surely an asset for researchers and institutions involved (31-34).One group that is clearly engaged in collaborative research and can offer valuable insights into views of and attitudes toward plagiarism is that of PhD holders. Exploring their views is timely, as they play a s...

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Plagiarism in Brazil: A perspective of 25,000 PhD holders across the sciences

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“…Finalmente, la academia está llamada a atender los aspectos contextuales que pueden tener una incidencia en las prácticas que se regulan desde la universidad. Factores más amplios como las reconfiguraciones sociales y educativas, que se han dado gracias a las tecnologías, también deben ser motivo de análisis (Husain, Al-Shaibani y Ali Mahfoodh, 2017). Ruiz (2016) plantea al respecto:…”

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Representaciones sociales de estudiantes universitarios sobre el plagio en la escritura académica

Gil

Fernández-López

2019

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RepResentaciones sociales de estudiantes univeRsitaRios sobRe el plagio en la escRituRa académicaSocial representations about plagiarism in academic writing among university students Représentations sociales du plagiat aux écrits académiques parmi des étudiants universitaires Karen Shirley López-Gil Psicóloga, fonoaudióloga, magíster en Lingüística y Español, Universidad del Valle. Máster en Innovación e Investigación en Educación y estudiante del doctorado en Educación, ambos en la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (uned), España. Docente e investigadora, ResumenEn este artículo se describen las representaciones sociales de los estudiantes universitarios acerca del plagio en la escritura académica. Se planteó un enfoque mixto de investigación, con un diseño descriptivo transversal. En los instrumentos de recolección de información se incluyó una encuesta en línea, aplicada a 414 estudiantes, y se llevaron a cabo dos grupos de discusión, con ocho participantes cada uno. Se usó la técnica de análisis de contenido con apoyo del software Atlas. Ti 8.0. Los resultados se agruparon en cuatro categorías: conocimientos sobre el plagio, actitudes hacia el plagio, interacción con el contexto académico y prácticas de uso de información. Sobre el conocimiento, se encontró que los estudiantes identifican el concepto de plagio y sus principales características. Respecto a las actitudes, los alumnos perciben el plagio como una práctica inadecuada y deshonesta que debe evitarse, y que les genera temor y bloqueos en la escritura. En cuanto a la interacción, la universidad demanda una mayor rigurosidad en el uso de la información que la educación secundaria, pero ofrece pocas orientaciones. Para evitar el plagio, en sus prácticas de escritura, los estudiantes usan el parafraseo y atribuyen la autoría a partir de la indicación de los enlaces de las páginas web consultadas. Aunque los participantes reconocen el plagio como una acción incorrecta, afirman que, en general, no cuentan con las competencias necesarias para evitarlo en sus textos académicos.Palabras clave: plagio; escritura académica; escritura en la universidad; alfabetización académica; representaciones sociales. AbstractThe purpose of the research was to identify the social representations that university students have about plagiarism in academic writing. A mixed research approach was proposed, with a cross-sectional descriptive design. The data collection instruments were an online survey applied to 414 students, and two discussion groups, with eight participants each. The content analysis technique was used, with the support of Atlas.Ti 8.0 software. The results were grouped into four categories: knowledge about plagiarism, attitudes towards plagiarism, interaction with the academic context and practices of information use. On knowledge, it was found that students identify the concept of plagiarism and its main characteristics. Regarding Este artículo presenta resultados parciales de la investigación "Representaciones sociales de estudiantes universitarios

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“…(1996) föreslår att arbetet med att fördjupa studenternas motivation i form av lärandemål, till skillnad från prestationsmål, kan skapa en bättre situation i arbetet mot studenters plagiering. Andra studier har visat på vikten av att konstruera policydokument kring arbetet mot och hanteringen av plagiat (Husain, Al-Shaibani & Mahfoodh, 2017;McCabe & Trevino, 1997), även om det finns indikationer på att enbart hälften av studenterna faktiskt läser dessa typer av dokument (Gullifer & Tyson, 2014). Ett sätt att komma till rätta med denna senare problematik är att aktivt arbeta med att påminna studenterna, genom hela utbildningen, om det problematiska med plagiat (Youmans, 2011).…”

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När blir det plagiat? – En tvärsnittsstudie av studenters färdigheter och förmågor gällande fusk i form av plagiat

Karlsson

2019

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Den här artikeln berör situationer då plagiat kan uppstå. Mer specifikt handlar artikeln om studenters färdigheter och förmågor när det kommer till plagiering eller situationer som skulle kunna förstås som plagiering. En enkät med nio olika situationer skapades i syfte att kartlägga studenters förmåga att identifiera när det kan handla om plagiat. 634 studenter på två olika institutioner vid Göteborgs universitet svarade på enkäten. Resultat och analys visar att studenter generellt hade god förmåga att identifiera enklare fall av plagiat, men klarade sig sämre i mer komplexa fall. Resultaten pekar vidare på att det framförallt är yngre studenter (födda på 90-talet) och akademiskt oerfarna som har lägre träffsäkerhet i sin identifikation. Artikeln avslutas med en reflektion kring undervisning och examination och lyfter särskilt fram tre delar: (i) vikten av att prata om plagiat, (ii) vikten av att arbeta med akademisk integritet och (iii) vikten av att arbeta med akademiskt oerfarna.

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Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Plagiarism and Factors Contributing to Plagiarism: a Review of Studies

Cited by 65 publications

References 76 publications

Plagiarism in Brazil: A perspective of 25,000 PhD holders across the sciences

Plagiarism in Brazil: A perspective of 25,000 PhD holders across the sciences

Representaciones sociales de estudiantes universitarios sobre el plagio en la escritura académica

När blir det plagiat? – En tvärsnittsstudie av studenters färdigheter och förmågor gällande fusk i form av plagiat

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