{"id":16269,"date":"2018-06-17T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16269"},"modified":"2018-06-17T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:04:39","slug":"doing-it-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/17\/doing-it-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing It A Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder about plagiarism in the field of academic philosophy? Yeah, me neither – but it does happen, and Retraction Watch<\/strong><\/em> interviews<\/a> a leading light in the fight against just such plagiarism here. I found this bit interesting:<\/p>\n

RW: What\u2019s your typical procedure when you spot a potential publishing problem? When, if ever, do you contact the authors?<\/b><\/p>\n

MD: In my experience, plagiarism in philosophy is typically serial plagiarism. When I happen upon a plagiarized article in my research, I treat it as an index case, and then I examine other articles by the same author of record. Cases can multiply very quickly. Also, colleagues now send me tips about suspected plagiarized articles in my field, and I am happy to assist them with advice or to send retraction requests myself if the evidence is there and they wish to remain uninvolved. Although I prefer not to deal directly with authors of record for plagiarized articles, I often contact the primary victims of plagiarism to let them know that I will be sending a retraction request to a journal or publisher. Their support can be helpful, but it is not necessary: it\u2019s the documentation of evidence that counts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You do it once and don’t get caught, then why not repeat it? But most folks are brought up to be honest, so most don’t do it.<\/p>\n

It’s reassuring to me, actually.<\/p>\n

In the preceding Word Of The Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I quoted another part of the interview which mentions an attempted harassment of him as a whistleblower. It seems that some editors don’t realize that fraud is an unfortunate but inevitable part of the game, and they should be prepared for it, rather than assuming, as a friend of mine is fond of saying, their shit don’t stink<\/em>. Something anyone in an editorial or even managerial position should probably consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder about plagiarism in the field of academic philosophy? Yeah, me neither – but it does happen, and Retraction Watch interviews a leading light in the fight against just such plagiarism here. I found this bit interesting: RW: What\u2019s your typical procedure when you spot a potential publishing problem? \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16270,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions\/16270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}