Detecting and (Not) Dealing with Plagiarism in an Engineering Paper: Beyond CrossCheck—A Case Study

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 433-443

  Zhang, Xin xin ^a   Huo, Zhao lin ^b   Zhang, Yue hong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CrossCheck; Engineering and physical sciences; Journal editors; Plagiarism

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER; ENGINEERING; ETHICS; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; AUTOMATION; COMPUTERS; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ENGINEERING; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PLAGIARISM; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84882779591     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-013-9460-5     Document Type: Article

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