Plagiarism in the XXI Century: Who Needs It?

Abstract

Plagiarism is perhaps the most common form of unethical behaviour, when the author of the published material (not always intentionally or consciously) uses fragments or even the whole work of another researcher without getting the permission, not accompanying matching content with references to the source. Plagiarism may occur in relation to the data, words or phrases, ideas and principles. The article presents the analysis results of the literature data on the causes, types of plagiarism, as well as means of protection from it. This information can help the authors to write correctly their scientific papers.

Keywords

• plagiarism
• borrowing
• ethics
• scientific publications
• retraction