{"id":227850,"date":"2016-11-23T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=227850"},"modified":"2016-11-23T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:59:45","slug":"the-russian-roulette-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-russian-roulette-of-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian roulette of plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual experience has led Seder Sayan, professor at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey to write a paper about plagiarism for the journal <em>Review of Social Science<\/em>.\u00a0 Sayan writes that in 2007 he was asked by the <em>Scandinavian Journal of Economics<\/em> to review a completely plagiarized version of a paper he had written jointly with a student years before that had been published in a bilingual Turkish science journal.<\/p>\n<p>The articles were identical.\u00a0 The only differences involved inclusion of the name of the plagiarizer (whose identity Sayan preferred not to reveal) and removal of the list of acknowledgments and of the abstract prepared in Turkish.\u00a0 Publication of the article was aborted and the plagiarizer denounced by his institution, but Sayan continued to ponder the subject.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked myself: why would anyone take such as risk?\u00a0 Even if the manuscript had been sent to another reviewer, the journal might well find out,\u201d he says.\u00a0 He thought about the topic and concluded that the logic is similar to that employed in Russian roulette: pressured to increase his output, the plagiarizer bet his entire reputation on the chance that he would not be caught and believed that flaws in the review process and difficulties in accessing original sources would save him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Russian roulette of plagiarism ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[230],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-227850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-practices","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227850"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=227850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}