This varies from field to field — in math, it would be bizarre to reword standard definitions. (Typically in this case there is no confusion about whether the definitions represent intellectual work of the authors.)
Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by JBL
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by niki
Dear Jeffrey Beall , I disagree with you about Springer and MDPI !
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Jeff Shrager
It is the author’s responsibility to not plagiarize, not the responsibility of either the editor or the reviewer’s to notice it (although it’s optimal if they do, and can nip the issue in the bud). However, it IS the responsibility of the editor to respond to it when it is pointed out. JB appropriately informed the editor, and the editor responded. All we are discussing here, really, is whether the editor responded appropriately.
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Bill White
Who puts those “rules”? And, are they infallible, perfect “rules”? If you cite a person, you should cite him/her as faithfully as possible. Otherwise, we risk to deform his/her intention.
Successive citations or multiple paraphrases may end by loosing the original meaning after X times of citations.
“A sacred text should be cited as is”! If academic works are not as important as scientists declare, then, OK, citations could be in any form…! We would end with ignoring who and how an original idea was said…
Anyway, this is a long debatable question…
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Nils
Some of the recent comments indeed miss the point, and I wonder whether the commenters have looked at the paper in question.
The paper does not include the occasional quotation, it contains almost nothing but sentences from other sources. And as I wrote earlier, most of the Methodology section is taken from another paper without attribution.
Get over it, folks, the article by Akhmat et al is a plagiarism, period.
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Lisa
Thanks Professor Shrager for correcting my last conversation. I definitely don’t support the authors, i firm believe that, author’s work based on justice, each and every paragraph cited properly, as you already indicated in previous conversation to others that you most likely to see your scholarly writing without any loss of actual meaning which you want to say. I totally agreed your statement and believed on the same lines. As far as comments on the editorial and reviewer activities, you are right and i believe that editor of the journal, who has an enormous profile of his credit, give the right answer on this situation.
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Miguel Roig
I’m with Ashley on this one. Over the years I have given workshops on avoiding plagiarism and other questionable writing practices to students, postdocs, and faculty from across the full spectrum of the sciences and I am continuously amazed at the extent to which some researchers are misinformed about fundamental rules of scholarship. I suppose that it is sometimes (and I mean very few times) understandable when these types of misunderstandings are the result of unfamiliarity with Western scholarly traditions (e.g., citation, paraphrasing/summarizing, quotation) that in most English-speaking nations are typically introduced in secondary schools and later refined in tertiary schools and with further training. But, I am really at a loss to explain these types of misunderstandings in those who should know better. The rules of scholarship are rather simple: When using others’ verbatim text, such text must be enclosed in quotation marks (or if the quoted material is substantial one uses block quotation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_quotation) and a citation must also be provided. If others’ material (i.e., idea/s) is to be paraphrased and/or summarized, an author must thoroughly rewrite that material in a way that his ‘writing voice’ shows in the new work and a citation to the original work must be included. Yes, writing scientific articles presents some challenges for authors in the hard sciences because of the technical nature of the language used, particularly in Methods sections. So, for example, the plagiarism definition used by the US Office of Research Integrity allows for the “limited use of identical or nearly-identical phrases which describe a commonly-used methodology or previous research” (http://ori.hhs.gov/ori-policy-plagiarism). This type of flexibility is built in because, as some have pointed out in this forum, rewriting of technical descriptions can run the risk of altering the original meaning. But notice: “limited use of identical or nearly-identical phrases”. Phrases are not sentences and sentences are certainly not paragraphs. Some editors allow for greater freedom of reuse of one’s own work (reuse of one’s own previously published methods section) or perhaps of even others’ work, but if this is so, this flexibility must be communicated in the journal’s instructions to authors. If those allowances are not made explicit then the standard rules outlined above should be assumed to be in operation. To not follow them in this day and age is a risk not worth taking.
PS: My icon is not representative of who I am, for I believe myself to be, and others tell me, that I am really a very pleasant guy. :)
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Miguel Roig
I see that the icon changed after I posted the above reply. Not crazy about that one either, but it will do.
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Steve Mark
Your are right Jeff…..however, the matter is either editor is soft on plagiarism? i object that……editor is on the right forum and as he has already asked that plagiarism definition is not clear yet….as somebody using citation….rather than quotation, both serves as the same meaning…….as editor asked, they will take care of this issue in the future…i think we have to liberatize their decisions…….
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Comment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism? by Bill White
The question I am posing in regard to this issue is (or similar issues): would it be FAIR to penalize an author for 1 or two sentences, one or two paragraphs he/she copied? He/she may did it with ignorance, without knowing about plagiarism or simply because he is novice.
What is the true or concrete implication of such issue?
I think that an author who copies on another author (without citation), he does it undoubtedly by ignorance or incompetence, otherwise he would not not do it.
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Comment on Iceland Professor in Hot Water for Publishing in Predatory Journals by Jordi
I’ve been to those hot springs in Iceland Ironically, they are not “real” but are the manufactured result of excess heat from an energy project. Still comfy though.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Short review of the International Journal of Digital Library Services | Bende
[…] this journal was easy. (I was partially inspired by Jeffrey Beall’s list of things to look for to determine ‘predatoriness’.) The website features animated GIF images and other very general images as ‘context’ […]
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Revues « prédatrices » : un danger pour les chercheurs ! | Archives Ouvertes
[…] américain, Jeffrey Beall, a conçu le blog Scholarly Open Access où il établit une liste des revues “prédatrices”. Mise à jour très régulièrement, celle-ci recense actuellement plusieurs centaines de revues […]
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Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
It looks like Elsevier published the journal on behalf of the "Society" and now the journal is being published only by the society and Elsevier has washed its hands of it.
The journal is a total mess. It is hardly open access as you have to create a login to access content. I would advise avoiding this journal completely.
On one of its <a href="http://www.phcogj.com/article/693" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pages</a>, the journal states, "Impact Factor® for 2014 is 1.525." This is completely bogus as the latest impact factors are the 2012 impact factors.
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Comment on What’s Up with Dr. George Perry? by DarkLord
Agreed “I don’t understand how it is physically possible for one human being to serve in so many positions and also serve as the dean of a college”. I don’t understand how it is physically possible for one human being to serve in so many positions and also serve as the dean of a college and also to publish large number of papers and also to understand every and each scientific and medicinal method. I am confused. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ySklo5EAAAAJ&hl=en
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Comment on What’s Up with Dr. George Perry? by DarkLord
His CV says marine biologist but OMICS says pathologist
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Comment on Scholarly Article Submitted and Accepted before Research is Completed by behalbiotech
this is new technology “Online Ahead of Research”
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Comment on Scholarly Article Submitted and Accepted before Research is Completed by RMS
It might just be a typo, 2012 would make more sense.
In my field there was an influential 2001 paper from a reputable journal that reported an erroneous pKa value of 3.6, instead of 6.3, and people to this day are reporting the wrong pKa citing that paper. They then wonder why they don’t get the desired precipitation that would have occurred had the pKa been indeed lower.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by ify
I want to commend you. You are really doing a great work, keep it up. My questions are (1) is it possible for journals or publishers on your list to mend their ways by improving on quality and correct their mistakes and thus be removed from predatory list. (2) can you please give us list of good journals in biomedical science
Thanks
From. Ify
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, I do remove publishers and journals from my lists. This is not uncommon.
No, I do not supply lists of good journals, sorry.
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