Plagiarism: The Bane of Publishing
Journal Title: Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal - Year 2015, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Plagiarism - derived from the Latin word plagiarus which means “kidnapper”(1), is defined as the practice of taking ideas from someone else without citing the source. Plagiarism in the region is documented - in 2008 the Medical Journal of Malaysia and the Singapore Medical Journal wrote a joint editorial deploring plagiarized manuscripts that were submitted for publication(2). The Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal (MOJ) uses iThenticate, an anti-plagiarism software to scan the manuscripts submitted. The software highlights sentences that are not original and identifies the primary online source. Sentences with the highest similarity from a single source will be redflagged and the percentage displayed. Editors now have the benefit of detecting copied sentences during the initial review process(3).
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Ibrahim S
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