Plagiarism in the context of education and evolving detection strategies

Journal of Korean Medical Science

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1220-1227

  Gasparyan, Armen Yuri ^a   Nurmashev, Bekaidar ^b   Seksenbayev, Bakhytzhan ^b   Trukhachev, Vladimir I ^c   Kostyukova, Elena I ^c   Kitas, George D ^a,d  

^a RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b South Kazakhstan State Pharmaceutical Academy ^*  (Kazakhstan)

^c STAVROPOL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Plagiarism; Publication ethics; Research activity; Research and development; Retraction of publication as topic; Similarity detection

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOFTWARE;

PLAGIARISM; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85021722161     PISSN: 10118934     EISSN: 15986357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.8.1220     Document Type: Article

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