Text-based plagiarism in scientific publishing: issues, developments and education.

Plagiarism in the sense of stealing ideas continues to be fought against as with other forms of research misconduct (e.g., fraud and duplication); meanwhile, reusing words from published papers, or “the misappropriation of language from other authors,” has recently been raised as a “quite significant trend” by some editors of scientific journals (Williams 2007 , p. 2535; see also “It’s a steal,” 2007 ; Kara Mosher, cited in Perry 2010 ; Zhang 2010a ).

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