The term Plagiarism represents the employment of someone else’s work, thoughts or ideas as your own or in your work without the consent of the original author. Many governments have declared it as a serious breach of moral code. Authors therefore have to be very careful while writing, because in scientific research and publishing, thoughts and ideas can correlate and correspond. The writer has to make sure that his audience knows that which ideas/phrases belong to others and which are his own original creation.
“Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” (New Oxford American Dictionary)
There are two kinds of plagiarism in scientific writing, copy of data and copy of texts. In first kind of plagiarism , a researches acquires the data (i.e. charts, figures, diagrams, tables etc) and uses them in his/her own work (with a little modification), while the other one refers to the situation when an author borrows the exact words of another, and does not quote, cite or refer him at all.
According to IEEE, “plagiarism in any form is unacceptable and is considered a serious breach of professional conduct, with potentially severe ethical and legal consequences”
It is quite evident that the competitiveness now-a-days is the most important reason of plagiarism. The peer-reviewing procedure is the most effective technique against plagiarism. A number of STM publishers are known to follow professional guidelines for anti-plagiarism practices and strict peer-reviewing, like Elsevier, Springer, Taylor Francis, Bentham Science Publishers, Wiley etc. Plagiarism is an issue which needs to be addressed by all publishers and other concerned parties in order to protect intellectual property rights.
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