title: Text-based plagiarism in scientific publishing: issues, developments and education.
abstract: Text-based plagiarism, or copying language from sources, has recently become an issue of growing concern in scientific publishing. Use of CrossCheck (a computational text-matching tool) by journals has sometimes exposed an unexpected amount of textual similarity between submissions and databases of scholarly literature. In this paper I provide an overview of the relevant literature, to examine how journal gatekeepers perceive textual appropriation, and how automated plagiarism-screening tools have been developed to detect text matching, with the technique now available for self-check of manuscripts before submission; I also discuss issues around English as an additional language (EAL) authors and in particular EAL novices being the typical offenders of textual borrowing. The final section of the paper proposes a few educational directions to take in tackling text-based plagiarism, highlighting the roles of the publishing industry, senior authors and English for academic purposes professionals.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. yongyan@hku.hk
authors.forename: Yongyan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D001331:Automation; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D015714:Plagiarism; D011643:Publishing / Q000941:ethics*; D012586:Science / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics*