As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Call for Papers: Academic Integrity Across K-12: A Prelude to Higher Education and Beyond
Education has been described as a fundamental right of all, not a choice for some by UNESCO. Particularly their Sustainable Development Goal 4 talks extensively about quality education that is accessible and inclusive of all.
Call for Papers: Integrity in an Emergency: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Other Extreme Conditions
IJEI welcomes high-quality research on the impact of emergencies on topics related to educational integrity including academic integrity, research integrity, research ethics and publication ethics. Emergency situations include pandemics (including COVID-19), natural disasters, extreme geo-political conflict and other extreme conditions that might affect ethics and integrity in educational contexts. Read more...
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
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Managing the mutations: academic misconduct in Australia, New Zealand and the UK
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First-year university students’ knowledge of academic misconduct and the association between goals for attending university and receptiveness to intervention
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Commercial contract cheating provision through micro-outsourcing web sites
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Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education
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Using Internet based paraphrasing tools: Original work, patchwriting or facilitated plagiarism?
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Why do postgraduate students commit plagiarism? An empirical study
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Responding to plagiarism using reflective means
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Academic integrity matters: five considerations for addressing contract cheating
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Paraphrasing tools, language translation tools and plagiarism: an exploratory study
2020
Academic Integrity Across K-12: A Prelude to Higher Education and Beyond
Education has been described as a fundamental right of all, not a choice for some by UNESCO. Particularly their Sustainable Development Goal 4 talks extensively about quality education that is accessible and inclusive of all.
Integrity in an Emergency: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Other Extreme Conditions
IJEI welcomes high-quality research on the impact of emergencies on topics related to educational integrity including academic integrity, research integrity, research ethics and publication ethics. Emergency situations include pandemics (including COVID-19), natural disasters, extreme geo-political conflict and other extreme conditions that might affect ethics and integrity in educational contexts
Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?
Paraphrasing tools, translation software and 'article spinners' are text-processing applications easily found via the Internet. 'Spun' text misleads people into thinking that these tools create a new form of original writing. This thematic series will explore the use of automated text processing as an emerging threat to academic integrity.
2019
Educational Integrity in Canada
This collection focusses on Canada and educational integrity. It lags behind other OECD nations in terms of research, particularly in the area of educational integrity (Eaton & Edino, 2018)
2018
Academic integrity: Emerging themes and challenges
This collection presents original research that sheds light on emerging issues and challenges for academic integrity. The diversity of contexts studied here aims at raising questions and showcasing findings from different perspectives.
2017
The rise of contract cheating in higher education: academic fraud beyond plagiarism
The recent explosion in contract cheating has given the international community of academic integrity scholars pause for thought. ‘Contract cheating’ is not the same as the less sinister and more widely accepted practice of ‘ghostwriting’ and has ramifications for individuals’ learning outcomes, institutional reputations, educational standards/credibility, professional practice and public safety, particularly if it is somehow normalised as an acceptable way for academic work to be accomplished.
The thematic series offers the opportunity for this emerging threat to academic integrity to be explored in-depth, and from multiple perspectives, so that meaningful responses and solutions can be instigated.
Collection published: 8 August 2017
Featured Collection: The rise of contract cheating in higher education - Academic fraud beyond plagiarism
Contract cheating occurs when students employ or use a third party to undertake their assessed work for them. Educators and researchers agree that contract cheating is qualitatively different than plagiarism, collusion, or the other relatively minor breaches, and so requires an entirely different approach. A new themed collection offers the opportunity for this emerging threat to academic integrity to be explored in-depth, and from multiple perspectives, so that meaningful responses and solutions can be instigated. The collection has started publishing, check out for new upcoming articles!
Speak up and out against contract cheating
The International Day of Action against Contract Cheating is an opportunity to speak up and out against the practice of having academic work done through third parties and then get academic credit for that. Students, universities and groups around the world follow the initiative to raise awareness around this growing threat to higher education. Check out what happens in the social media with the hashtags #defeatthecheat and #excelwithintegrity!
Psst…Need a PhD thesis? That’ll be $63,000
Retraction Watch interviewed Cath Ellis at UNSW Sydney, first author of a recent analysis in the journal about the extent of the problem of custom writing sites, and what troubles her most about these services.
Top stories
Using Internet based paraphrasing tools: Original work, patchwriting or facilitated plagiarism? Look how Times Higher Education, Retraction Watch and Inside Higher Ed picked up this paper.
Are Essay Mills committing fraud? An analysis of their behaviours vs the 2006 Fraud Act (UK). Mentioned in The Guardian, The Telegraph and the LSE Impact Blog, and also on BBC Radio 4, iNews, The Wave, and South Wales Evening Post.
A legal approach to tackling contract cheating? See all the mentions in the news and social media.
Exploring the potential of authentic assessment to minimise contract cheating
Students utilising online cheat sites to complete assignments has been identified as a significant problem for institutions. Although ‘authenticity’ has long been recognised as a core feature of good assessment practice, its role in nurturing academic integrity has not yet been adequately explored. Conducted over two years (2016 – 2018), this research project, led by the University of South Australia with other partners, will determine if and how authentic assessment may be used to assure academic integrity. Learn more about this project and keep up with updates and outcomes.
A MOOC on Academic Integrity
A free online course on Academic Integrity has just gone live. The course is created by the University of Auckland and is hosted on the Future Learn platform (Educator: Jason Stephens, University of Auckland, NZ). The course will explore academic integrity and how it can be demonstrated in work, study and research at university. Learn more
2005-2014 articles
The archival content of the International Journal for Educational Integrity can be located here.
Call for Papers: Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?
Can Paraphrasing tools, article spinners, translation software and automated text processing be seen as an emerging threat to academic integrity? Read more and submit your paper...
IJEI is indexed by ESCI and SCOPUS
International Journal for Educational Integrity has been accepted by the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and is indexed by SCOPUS.
Calls for papers
The IJEI welcomes innovative research in the area of academic and educational integrity from a variety of perspectives and contexts, and is currently calling for papers for the following thematic series.
Academic Integrity Across K-12: A Prelude to Higher Education and Beyond
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2021
Integrity in an Emergency: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Other Extreme Conditions
Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2020
Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?
Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2021
Educational Integrity in Canada
Published in 2019
Competition and corruption in education: A lethal combination for academic integrity
Ongoing call
Blogs
How cheap essays are big business
by Thomas Lancaster
The IJEI is in the Web of Science's Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
The International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI), as a scholarly outlet selected and reviewed in ESCI, has been identified as important to key opinion leaders, funders, and evaluators worldwide. ESCI allows researchers to discover new areas of research in evolving disciplines, as well as relevant interdisciplinary scholarly content across rapidly changing research fields. All articles published in this journal are discoverable via the Web of Science with full citation counts, author information and other enrichment.
Editor’s quote
"The International Journal for Educational Integrity, now in its 13th year as an open access online journal, is well placed to lead the field in responding to emerging threats to academic integrity. In particular, concerns about contract cheating and ghostwriters have made international headlines. Schools and higher education providers need to collaborate with quality assurance, regulatory and funding bodies, to address this global issue. Authors are encouraged to use the IJEI to publish innovative research that identifies the contexts and causes of contract cheating, and provides evidence-based solutions. I look forward to receiving your submissions.” Tracey Bretag, DEd
Welcome to BMC
We are delighted to announce that International Journal for Educational Integrity is now part of the BMC family of journals. The BMC website already receives over 100 million views per year and has expanded beyond biomedicine into a broader area of inquiry to offer a wider portfolio of subject fields on a single platform for authors considering open access publishing. Bookmark our new URL and make sure to sign up to our article alerts so you can keep up with all of the latest research and articles and read more about BMC’s pioneering spirit.
Why research on educational integrity really matters
Tracey Bretag, recently appointed member of the Committee on Publication Ethics Council (COPE), explains in this podcast what educational integrity is and why it has direct consequences on society.
Apply for APC funding in education research
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- ISSN: 1833-2595 (electronic)
