Self plagiarism and its utility to the reader
Journal Title: Journal of the Indian Medical Association - Year 2019, Vol 117, Issue 1
Abstract
Self-plagiarism is using ones own sentences again without proper citation. This practice is every now and then defended as harmless. This paper analyses a few recent scientific works that were published in orthopaedic and surgical journals which attract the clause of self-plagiarism. The apparently undamaging practice boosts the Curriculum Vitae of the author and actually causes harm in (i) wasting the time of the reader (ii) creating duplicate data in meta-analysis and (iii) consuming the space of original articles in the journals. With more journals going online and with gadgets available to identify repetition pattern such practices will surely decrease in future. Strict anti-plagiarism rules for journals and some soul-searching from the writers’ side are the urgent need of the hour.
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S Kumaravel
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