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Dear Editor, we would like to share ideas on the publication by Hammad on “Publishing a 100% Original Paper Without any Plagiarism.1” According to Hammad, plagiarism is the act of using another person's words or ideas without giving them proper credit.1 Citation and permission are the fundamental requirements for authoring an article, as stated by Ober et al.2 We want to express even greater concern on the issue of plagiarism. The primary focus of plagiarism at the moment is typically the unauthorized use of already published material. The intention to do it is what matters most. Even though it happens infrequently, plagiarism is not always intentional; it sometimes results from a publishing process error. For instance, it is feasible for a publisher to publish the same work repeatedly; this is considered duplication rather than plagiarism.
As was mentioned earlier, plagiarism must be done knowingly. There are two steps in the intention. There was once a desire to “steal”. Second, the original source was purposefully concealed. The content of the original author(s) may occasionally be taken by a plagiarist and significantly modified, but never acknowledged or referenced. It might be quite challenging to detect this with any kind of computational method. A figure may occasionally be taken from an original source, modified slightly, and used without proper citation.3 Figure plagiarism is what this is known as.3 The updated online search engine may be able to identify direct copying of a figure, but it may be very challenging to identify stolen figures that have undergone small alterations. The situation many be more complex when there is a translation into other language, which is hereby called translational plagiarism.4 For sure, this is usually extremely difficult to detect by currently available computational tools. As has already been mentioned, plagiarism is a wholly unacceptable activity that exposes the plagiarist's immoral behavior.
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Hammad, M. Publishing a 100% Original Paper Without any Plagiarism. Ann. Biomed. Eng. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-022-03031-x
Ober, H., S. I. Simon, and D. Elson. Five simple rules to avoid plagiarism. Ann. Biomed. Eng. 41(1):1–2, 2013
Wiwanitkit, V. Plagiarism, beyond CrossCheck, figure and conceptual theft. Sci. Eng. Ethics. 20(2):613–614, 2014
Wiwanitkit, V. How to Verify and Manage the Translational Plagiarism? Open. Access. Maced. J. Med. Sci. 4(3):533, 2016
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Mungmunpuntipantip, R., Wiwanitkit, V. Publication Without any Plagiarism: Correspondence. Ann Biomed Eng 50, 1704 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-022-03055-3
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