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Croatian scientists’ awareness of predatory journals

So-called predatory journals threaten to diminish the quality of papers and of scientific research. This paper defines what constitutes a predatory journal, and provides a short literature overview. The aim of...

Authors: Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Mihaela Guskić

Correction to: The Tokyo Medical University entrance exam scandal: lessons learned

Following publication of the original article [1], the author attempted to provide an overview of a scandal occurring at a Japanese university over its practice of lowering the scores of (primarily) female app...

Authors: Greg Wheeler

Correction to: Academic integrity policies of Baltic state-financed universities in online public spaces

Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that the values for LV1, LV2, LV3 and LV4 in row “Website section” of Table 2 should be corrected as follows:

Authors: Alla Anohina-Naumeca, Loreta Tauginienė and Tatjana Odineca

Academic integrity matters: five considerations for addressing contract cheating

This commentary paper examines the issue of contract cheating in higher education, drawing on research and current debate in the field of academic integrity. Media coverage of this issue has reflected signific...

Authors: Erica J. Morris

The Tokyo Medical University entrance exam scandal: lessons learned

The recent scandal involving Tokyo Medical University’s practice of restricting the number of incoming students, primarily female, by systematically lowering their entrance exam scores has once again shone a s...

Authors: Greg Wheeler

Promoting academic integrity through a stand-alone course in the learning management system

This case study describes the process faculty at a large research university undertook to build a stand-alone online academic integrity course for first-year and transfer students. Because academic integrity i...

Authors: M. Sara Lowe, Gina Londino-Smolar, Kenneth E. A. Wendeln and Diane L. Sturek

Plagiarism in Kosovo: a case study of two public universities

This article presents the current legislative and educative measures in place for plagiarism prevention in Kosovo, especially in the case of student work, and provides an analysis of the effectiveness of such ...

Authors: Sabiha Shala, Dukagjin Leka and Tina Morganella

Paraphrasing tools, language translation tools and plagiarism: an exploratory study

In a recent unit of study in an undergraduate Health Sciences pathway course, we identified a set of essays which exhibited similarity of content but demonstrated the use of bizarre and unidiomatic language. O...

Authors: Felicity M. Prentice and Clare E. Kinden

Educating students and future researchers about academic misconduct and questionable collaboration practices

Academic education largely concerns knowledge and skills. Where there is attention to ethics, this tends to focus on study-related misconduct such as plagiarising assignments and, more recently, methodological...

Authors: Thomas Edward Gladwin

An investigation of the citation transformation types in M.A. and PhD theses

This study investigates the types of citation transformation preferred by both English L1 (native language) writers and Turkish writers who use English as a foreign language (L2). The corpus consists of 34 the...

Authors: Fatma Şeyma Doğan, Oktay Yağız and Işıl Günseli Kaçar

Academic integrity policies of Baltic state-financed universities in online public spaces

Academic integrity determines the trust that society has in the quality of education and the results of scientific research. More broadly, it influences honesty, respect for ethical principles, and the fair be...

Authors: Alla Anohina-Naumeca, Loreta Tauginienė and Tatjana Odineca

Why do postgraduate students commit plagiarism? An empirical study

The study investigated postgraduate students’ knowledge of plagiarism, forms of plagiarism they commit, the reasons they commit plagiarism and actions taken against postgraduate students who plagiarise at Mzuz...

Authors: Apatsa Selemani, Winner Dominic Chawinga and Gift Dube

Effectiveness of tutorials for promoting educational integrity: a synthesis paper

The prevalence of plagiarism, cheating, and other acts of academic dishonesty may be as high as 80% in populations of high school and post-secondary students. Various educational interventions have been develo...

Authors: Brenda M. Stoesz and Anastassiya Yudintseva

Strengthening the research agenda of educational integrity in Canada: a review of the research literature and call to action

We present findings of a literature review on the topic of educational integrity in the Canadian context. Our search revealed 56 sources, published between 1992 and 2017. A historical overview showed a rise in...

Authors: Sarah Elaine Eaton and Rachael Ileh Edino

Analysis of the contract cheating market in Czechia

Contract cheating is currently one of the most serious academic integrity issues around the globe. Numerous studies have been conducted, mostly in English speaking countries. So far, no such research has been ...

Authors: Tomáš Foltýnek and Veronika Králíková

Integrity in higher education marketing and misleading claims in the university prospectus: what happened next…and is it enough?

In 2013 this journal published the paper ‘Integrity in Higher Education Marketing: A typology of misleading data-based claims in the university prospectus.’ It argued that UK universities were using data and s...

Authors: John Bradley

Addressing cheating in e-assessment using student authentication and authorship checking systems: teachers’ perspectives

Student authentication and authorship checking systems are intended to help teachers address cheating and plagiarism. This study set out to investigate higher education teachers’ perceptions of the prevalence ...

Authors: Harvey Mellar, Roumiana Peytcheva-Forsyth, Serpil Kocdar, Abdulkadir Karadeniz and Blagovesna Yovkova

The infernal business of contract cheating: understanding the business processes and models of academic custom writing sites

While there is growing awareness of the existence and activities of Academic Custom Writing websites, which form a small part of the contract cheating industry, how they work remains poorly understood. Very li...

Authors: Cath Ellis, Ian Michael Zucker and David Randall

Plagiarism policies in Iranian university TEFL teachers’ syllabuses: an exploratory study

Plagiarism has been on the rise amongst university students in recent decades. This study puts university teachers in the spotlight and investigates their role in raising students’ awareness about plagiarism. ...

Authors: Musa Nushi and Amir Hossein Firoozkohi

A legal approach to tackling contract cheating?

The phenomenon of contract cheating presents, potentially, a serious threat to the quality and standards of Higher Education around the world. There have been suggestions, cited below, to tackle the problem us...

Authors: Michael J. Draper and Philip M. Newton

Ethical and legal observations on contract cheating services as an agreement

In this paper we cast light on one form of dishonest behaviour in academia – contract cheating services. We examine how an agreement between a student and a contract cheating services provider is viewed from e...

Authors: Loreta Tauginienė and Vaidas Jurkevičius

Detecting contract cheating in essay and report submissions: process, patterns, clues and conversations

Detecting contract cheating in written submissions can be difficult beyond direct plagiarism detectable via technology. Successfully identifying potential cases of contract cheating in written work such as ess...

Authors: Ann M. Rogerson

University scandal, reputation and governance

A review of the literature on corporate governance serves to demonstrate the applicability of many governance solutions to the university setting. Based on a review of university scandals, most of which are re...

Authors: Meredith Downes

Removing the opportunity for contract cheating in business capstones: a crime prevention case study

With a definition that is evolving, a serious component of the contract cheating issue involves individuals paying a third-party to complete assessment items for them and then submitting this work as if it wer...

Authors: Michael Baird and Joseph Clare

Cheating in a dental practical exam

There is increasing attention given to academic integrity across university education and dental schools are not immune to this problem (Andrews et al. J Dent Educ 71; 1027–1039, 2007; Ford & Hughes Eur J Dent...

Authors: Wendy Currie, Susie Dracopoulos and Graham Hendry

Challenging the profiles of a plagiarist: a study of abstracts submitted to an international interdisciplinary conference

Much of the current literature on plagiarism focuses on students, attempting to understand how students view the concept of plagiarism, the best ways to prevent it, and the impact of collaboration on the conce...

Authors: Amy Hodges, Troy Bickham, Elizabeth Schmidt and Leslie Seawright

Can we detect contract cheating using existing assessment data? Applying crime prevention theory to an academic integrity issue

Building on what is known about the non-random nature of crime problems and the explanatory capacity of opportunity theories of crime, this study explores the utility of using existing university administrativ...

Authors: Joseph Clare, Sonia Walker and Julia Hobson

Using Internet based paraphrasing tools: Original work, patchwriting or facilitated plagiarism?

A casual comment by a student alerted the authors to the existence and prevalence of Internet-based paraphrasing tools. A subsequent quick Google search highlighted the broad range and availability of online p...

Authors: Ann M. Rogerson and Grace McCarthy

Are Essay Mills committing fraud? An analysis of their behaviours vs the 2006 Fraud Act (UK)

Many strategies have been proposed to address the use of Essay Mills and other ‘contract cheating’ services by students. These services generally offer bespoke custom-written essays or other assignments to stu...

Authors: Michael J. Draper, Victoria Ibezim and Philip M. Newton

Defending university integrity

Universities are seldom lauded publicly for maintaining good processes and practices; instead, media stories commonly focus on shortcomings. Furthermore, universities, even when doing everything right, sometim...

Authors: Brian Martin

Role-playing institutional academic integrity policy-making: using researched perspectives to develop pedagogy

This article describes research-based role-play on academic integrity. In the role-play, doctoral students negotiated the revision of an institutional integrity policy representing different groups of academic...

Authors: Erika Löfström

Networked participatory online learning design and challenges for academic integrity in higher education

A new multi-disciplinary degree program in education and information studies was developed to uniquely facilitate educators’ capacity to be responsive to the demands of a digitally connected world. Charles Stu...

Authors: Judy O’Connell

The achieving with integrity seminar: an integrative approach to promoting moral development in secondary school classrooms

For anyone concerned about students’ moral development, academic dishonesty presents a pervasive problem but also a promising possibility. The present paper describes the theoretical and empirical underpinning...

Authors: Jason M. Stephens and David B. Wangaard

Paint me a picture: translating academic integrity policies and regulations into visual content for an online course

In 2012, and 2014 Libraries and Learning Services from the University of Auckland created two online courses to introduce students to the concept of academic integrity and its associated values and expectation...

Authors: Tricia Bingham, Stephanie Reid and Vanda Ivanovic

A close encounter with ghost-writers: an initial exploration study on background, strategies and attitudes of independent essay providers

Academic dishonesty presents in different forms, including fabrication of data, falsifying references, multiple submissions, collusion, and sabotage, with two forms haunting academia, namely plagiarism and con...

Authors: Shiva Sivasubramaniam, Kalliopi Kostelidou and Sharavan Ramachandran

Academic dishonesty amongst Australian criminal justice and policing university students: individual and contextual factors

Over the past few decades, a body of research has developed examining the academic dishonesty of university and college students. While research has explored academic dishonesty amongst American criminal justi...

Authors: Li Eriksson and Tara Renae McGee

Disciplinary action for academic dishonesty: does the student’s gender matter?

The purpose of this study is to identify if gender differences exist with respect to conviction of university students for academic dishonesty. To investigate this phenomenon, data from the Swedish National Ag...

Authors: Hope Witmer and Jonas Johansson

Responding to plagiarism using reflective means

Academic integrity violations have become widespread and pervasive in the university. The manner in which we respond to such violations is important. The prevalent approaches based on procedures, policies, app...

Authors: Nikunj Dalal

Students’ perceptions of plagiarism and relevant policies in Cyprus

Effective plagiarism deterrence in the Republic of Cyprus, requires the identification of any gaps, best practices and case studies relating to plagiarism across the Higher Educational Institutions in the coun...

Authors: Angelika I Kokkinaki, Catherine Demoliou and Melpo Iakovidou

Plagiarism in five universities in Mozambique: Magnitude, detection techniques, and control measures

Hugely facilitated by the Internet, plagiarism by students threatens educational quality and professional ethics worldwide. Plagiarism reduces learning and is correlated with increased fraud and inefficiency o...

Authors: Peter E Coughlin

Editorial

Authors: Tracey Bretag