Plagiarism in Medical Sciences Publications: The Extent, Reasons and Its Remedial Measures

سال انتشار: 1397
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
مشاهده: 436

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SHBUCONF01_039

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 20 خرداد 1398

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The main objective of this study was to determine the extent of plagiarism and the main reasons behind it in medically-oriented articles. The study was conducted in two phases, with the first aimed at examining the frequency of its occurrence in publications of medically-oriented universities. To this end, a total of 23 ISI-indexed and 74 SCOPUS-indexed journals, with medically-oriented topics, were randomly selected from the portal of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education. The selected journals should have been published within the last 5 years. Then, in the next step, two articles were randomly selected from each journal, amounting to a total of 194. The selected articles were then checked by TURNITIN plagiarism detector software, specifying their similarity index with three familiar sources: the internet, publications and students’ papers. The results indicated a similarity index of 66.09 and 67.89 for the ISI and Scopus indexed journals respectively. The study, additionally, went further to delineate the researchers’ perceptions of plagiarism, intended for remedial purposes and subsequent preventative measures. As such, 12 researchers, with 15 to 30 years of publication experience, were asked to take part in a semi-structured interview. Based on their assertions, insufficient language skills, pressure for promotion, ineffective punitive measures and leakage of research ideas through collaborative clinical practice were the main reasons for committing plagiarism. The study proceeded with some remedial suggestions.

نویسندگان

Forough Rahimi

School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyyed Samad Sajjadi

School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Reza Esfandiari

Department of Foreign Languages, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran