Getting caught out for plagiarism is serious enough for students in their coursework, but the stakes are even higher for researchers if their paper contains plagiarism and is submitted for publishing. Plagiarism in research is more common than you may think, with almost 1 in 5 articles suffering from text plagiarism (Pupovac, 2021).
In many cases, acts of plagiarism happen inadvertently as opposed to deliberately, and can be prevented with greater awareness and a commitment to good research-writing practices. We’ve compiled this research plagiarism spectrum to outline the different types of plagiarism that surface in research, and help researchers mitigate these risks in their research writing.