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ArticleReumatologia2021

Plagiarism detection and prevention: a primer for researchers.

Olena Zimba, Armen Yuri Gasparyan

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Article in Reumatologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Authors, beware of plagiarism in medical writing.Journal of postgraduate medicine · 2025
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  3. Plagiarism in Publications: All about Being Fair!The Indian journal of radiology & imaging · 2025
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  6. Ethical Considerations for AI Use in Healthcare Research.Healthcare informatics research · 2024
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  8. Plagiarism: A Bird's Eye View.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023
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  9. [Scientific integrity faces plagiarism fabricated with the ChatGPT].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Olena ZimbaDepartment of Internal Medicine No. 2, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Armen Yuri GasparyanDepartments of Rheumatology and Research and Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of the University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plagiarism is an ethical misconduct affecting the quality, readability, and trustworthiness of scholarly publications. Improving researcher awareness of plagiarism of words, ideas, and graphics is essential for avoiding unacceptable writing practices. Global editorial associations have publicized their statements on strategies to clean literature from redundant, stolen, and misleading information. Consulting related documents is advisable for upgrading author instructions and warning plagiarists of academic and other consequences of the unethical conduct. A lack of creative thinking and poor academic English skills are believed to compound most instances of redundant and "copy-and-paste" writing. Plagiarism detection software largely relies on reporting text similarities. However, manual checks are required to reveal inappropriate referencing, copyright violations, and substandard English writing. Medical researchers and authors may improve their writing skills and avoid the same errors by consulting the list of retractions due to plagiarism which are tracked on the PubMed platform and discussed on the Retraction Watch blog.

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plagiarismpublication ethicspublishingrheumatology

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PMID34538939
PMCPMC8436797

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