Conference Paper: Scholarly Plagiarism: “Citation Sentence Reuse Behavior of Scientists: A Case Study on Massive Bibliographic Text Dataset of Computer Science”
The following paper will be presented and published in the proceedings of ACM/IEEE-CS 2017 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Toronto.
Title
Citation Sentence Reuse Behavior of Scientists: A Case Study on Massive Bibliographic Text Dataset of Computer Science
Authors
Mayank Singh
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)
Abhishek Niranjan
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)s
Divyansh Gupta
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)
Nikhil Angad Bakshi
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)
Animesh Mukherjee
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)
Pawan Goyal
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)
Source
via arXiv
Abstract
Our current knowledge of scholarly plagiarism is largely based on the similarity between full text research articles.
In this paper, we propose an innovative and novel conceptualization of scholarly plagiarism in the form of reuse of explicit citation sentences in scientific research articles. Note that while full-text plagiarism is an indicator of a gross-level behavior, copying of citation sentences is a more nuanced micro-scale phenomenon observed even for well-known researchers. The current work poses several interesting questions and attempts to answer them by empirically investigating a large bibliographic text dataset from computer science containing millions of lines of citation sentences.
In particular, we report evidences of massive copying behavior. We also present several striking real examples throughout the paper to showcase widespread adoption of this undesirable practice. In contrast to the popular perception, we find that copying tendency increases as an author matures. the copying behavior is reported to exist in all fields of computer science; however, the theoretical fields indicate more copying than the applied fields.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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