Awareness about plagiarism amongst university students in Pakistan

Higher Education

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-84

  Ramzan, Muhammad ^a   Munir, Muhammad Asif ^b   Siddique, Nadeem ^a   Asif, Muhammad ^a  

^a LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b SUPERIOR UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Academic dishonesty; Awareness about plagiarism; Plagiarism; Plagiarism amongst students; Plagiarism in Pakistan; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860547607     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9481-4     Document Type: Article

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