The plagiarism euphemism parade continues

Abstract

Since its founding in 2010 the American blog “Retraction Watch” collects reasons (and excuses) for academic misconduct appearing during the peer review and editing process of submitted publications to international scientific journals. For this short contribution both founding fathers of the blog present us with an euphemism parade on plagiarism. Many of the rather grotesque paraphrases for simple copy&paste were provided by the authors of the retracted publications themselves. A serious question remains – why don't we all just call a spade a spade?

Keywords

• euphemism
• plagiarism
• excuses
• causes
• publication retraction