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Dealing with Plagiarism as an Editor

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As comments by Nature in 2010, ‘Major science publishers are gearing up to fight plagiarism… including Elsevier and Springer, are set to roll out software across their journals that will scan submitted papers for identical or paraphrased chunks of text that appear in previously published articles [1]’.

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Zhang, Y.(. (2016). Dealing with Plagiarism as an Editor. In: Against Plagiarism. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24160-9_10

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