College of Information and Computer Science, Long Island University
Published by June 7th, 2008
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A study has found that only 143 students caught cheating were expelled out of 9,200 cases, despite almost all British universities threatening expulsion as a sanction. The study of 86 UK universities also found a much higher rate of plagiarism among postgraduate students.
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Published by January 26th, 2008
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The Nature journal has reported that two research scientists at the University of Texas in Dallas – Dr. Harold Garner and Dr. Mounir Errami – have developed an online search engine that curbs “questionable publication practices”. By deploying its new eTBLAST programme, the duo has managed to pinpoint 70,000 papers on biomedical paper repository Medline that are highly similar. As per their estimates, over 200,000 duplicate papers are likely to exist on Medline alone.
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