Plagiarism and PhDs: how to deal with copying


It may seem counter-intuitive but postgraduates are more likely to commit plagiarism than undergraduates, according to information obtained by The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act.
Twice as many postgraduates were guilty of plagiarism at the University of Glasgow as undergraduates in the academic year 2008/9. Figures released by the university show that 0.26 per cent of undergraduate students committed plagiarism compared to 0.57 per cent of all postgraduates.
Other research supports this. A report by the JISC (Joint Information System Committee) estimated in 2008 that an average of 1.19 per cent of postgraduate students are involved in cases of plagiarism, compared to 0.67 per cent of undergraduates.
The JISC report suggested this was because “plagiarism is simply treated as a more serious issue at postgraduate level”, resulting in more cases being recorded formally. Although this may be the case, our statistics suggest that there may be more to the disparity.
It seems that, in the Glasgow figures, a higher proportion of international students commit plagiarism and, when compared to undergraduates, a larger percentage of the postgraduate population is made up of international students, resulting in a larger proportion of postgraduate students being found to have committed plagiarism.
The figures from the University of Glasgow show that 1.76 per cent of all overseas postgraduate students from outside the EU committed plagiarism, compared to 0.11 per cent of all postgraduate students from the UK. Furthermore, around 25 per cent of the postgraduate population at the University of Glasgow came from outside the EU, compared to 3.5 per cent of their undergraduate population.

According to Aled Dilwyn Fisher, the Students’ Union general secretary at the London School of Economics, cultural background influences the way that students approach the question of copying material.
“Many cases involve students who have experience in other countries’ educational and cultural environments where different referencing systems are used – or, indeed, where no referencing systems are used at all,” says Fisher who sits on the college’s board that judges plagiarism cases. “These candidates often have absolutely no intention to deceive. There are usually language difficulties involved.”
He remembers advising one student who was looking up the definition of “plagiarism” in their native language when he met them. “They had no idea that they had done something wrong,” he says.
Since 2004, an independent body, The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), has been established to receive complaints from students, and has found itself getting a lot of complaints about plagiarism.
“More than one-half the plagiarism-related postgraduate complaints come from international students with citizenship outside the European Union, whereas less than one-third of undergraduate complaints about plagiarism come from this source,” says Rob Behrens, who is head of the OIA.
Alison Bone, a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, who has published many articles on plagiarism and assessment practices, says: “A great many Asian students have been taught very differently to British students. Their perception of education is that you sit and listen to the teacher and replicate what was said. That’s just their view. They think the more you reproduce the work of experts, the better it is.”
With this in mind, you might expect that Asian students would receive less advice about plagiarism from their own universities than British students do. But that is not necessarily the case.
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Top 100 Chemists 2000-2010 Ranked by Citation Impact (among those with 50 or more papers)

The top 100 is intended to celebrate the achievements of chemists who achieved the highest citation impact scores for chemistry papers (articles and reviews) published since January 2000. Thomson Reuters published the table in support of the International Year of Chemistry.

RankInstitutionPapersCitationsImpact
1Charles M. LIEBER
Harvard University
7417,776240.22
2Omar M. YAGHI
University of California Los Angeles
9019,870220.78
3Michael O’KEEFFE
Arizona State University
7312,910176.85
4K. Barry SHARPLESS
Scripps Research Institute
609,754162.57
5A. Paul ALIVISATOS
University of California Berkeley
9314,589156.87
6Richard E. SMALLEY†
Formerly Rice University
609,217153.62
7Hongjie DAI
Stanford University
8812,768145.09
8Xiaogang PENG
University of Arkansas
598,548144.88
9Valery V. FOKIN
Scripps Research Institute
546,853126.91
10
[MS 1]
Peidong YANG
University of California Berkeley
9511,167117.55
11Benjamin LIST
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
818,808108.74
12
[MS 50]
Mark E. THOMPSON
University of Southern California
535,394101.77
13Robert H HAUGE
Rice University
555,566101.20
14Eric N. JACOBSEN
Harvard University
817,98598.58
15Banglin CHEN
University of Texas San Antonio
615,92997.20
16David W.C. MACMILLAN
Princeton University
555,26795.76
17Mostafa EL-SAYED
Georgia Institute of Technology
11110,13591.31
18Ezio RIZZARDO
Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia
524,74791.29
19Michael S. STRANO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
544,84389.69
20Michael J. ZAWOROTKO
University of South Florida
837,40389.19


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Here are some general blogs that cover medical research and information.


General Medical Research

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