Text recycling

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Introduction

“Often called “self-plagiarism,” text recycling occurs frequently in scientific writing. Over the past decade, increasing numbers of scientific journals have begun using plagiarism detection software to screen submitted manuscripts. As a result, large numbers of cases of text recycling are being identified, yet there is no consensus on what constitutes ethically acceptable practice. Text recycling is thus an increasingly important and controversial ethical issue in scientific communication.” (Texrecycling.org, retrieved Sept 6, 2019.

Some text recycling, e.g. in the introduction and methods section may be both inevitable and acceptable or even desired.

See also:

• plagiarism

Bibliography

• Moskovitz, C. (2016). Self-Plagiarism, Text Recycling, and Science Education. BioScience, 66(1), 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv160

• Moskovitz, C. (2019). Text Recycling in Scientific Writing. Science and Engineering Ethics, 25(3), 813–851. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-0008-y

• Pemberton, M., Hall, S., Moskovitz, C., & Anson, C. M. (2019). Text recycling: Views of North American journal editors from an interview‐based study. Learned Publishing, leap.1259. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1259

Links

• https://textrecycling.org/

• How to deal with text recycling, retrieved sept. 6, 2019, COPE