Healthy Skepticism Library item: 16357

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Publication type: Journal Article

Self-plagiarism: unintentional, harmless, or fraud?
The Lancet 2009 Aug 29; 374:(9691):664
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61536-1/fulltext

Abstract:

The intense pressure to publish to advance careers and attract grant money, together with decreasing time available for busy researchers and clinicians, can create a temptation to cut corners and maximise scientific output. Journals are increasingly seeing submissions in which large parts of text have been copied from previously published papers by the same author.
Whereas plagiarism-copying from others-is widely condemned and regarded as intellectual theft, the concept of self-plagiarism is less …