sexta-feira, 8 de maio de 2020

Creation of a Moral Panic? Self-Plagiarism in the Academy

https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/university-college-londona-radical.html

Still following the post above and the radical proposal "restricting researchers to just one scholarly paper a year" mentioned on it its worth remembering the paper by Jamie L. Callahan  of Northumbria University "Creation of a Moral Panic?
Self-Plagiarism in the Academy

“Some take a hard-line approach, contending that anything that represents a greater than 10% similarity index to previously published works…constitutes self-plagiarism (Bretag & Carapiet, 2007; Bretag & Mahmud, 2009)… A major plagiarism-detection software company used by many publishing houses (including Sage) published an article arguing that “Even reusing a sentence or paragraph from your own previous paper can constitute self-plagiarism” (Creutz, 2010, para. 13)” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1534484313519063

just because self-plagiarism only became a real problem when the merit system in Academia start to treat as stars those that excel in running paper factories like those super-scientists that keep on published even after being dead https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/10/omnipotent-omniscient-omnipresent-and.html
The perverse reward system advocates that better than to have 400 ISI papers is to have 4000 ! Like if having 4000 papers was not enough evidence of scientific misconduct!