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Plagiarism in articles published in journals indexed in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL): a comparative analysis between 2013 and 2018

This study analyzes the possible occurrence of plagiarism and self-plagiarism in a sample of articles published in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL), an open database that indexes business ...

Authors: Marcelo Krokoscz

In memory of Tracey Bretag: a collection of tributes

Authors: Sarah Elaine Eaton, Helen Titchener, Ann Rogerson, Saadia Mahmud, Felicity Prentice, Guy Curtis, Katherine Seaton, Rebecca Awdry, Teresa (Teddi) Fishman, Irene Glendinning, Thomas Lancaster, Erica J. Morris, Stella-Maris Orim, Gill Rowell, Michael Draper, Phil Newton…

Correction to: Academic integrity in the Muslim world: a conceptual map of challenges of culture

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Akbar Akbar and Michelle Picard

Academic integrity in the Muslim world: a conceptual map of challenges of culture

The literature suggests that a whole-institution culture of academic integrity is needed in order to prevent academic integrity breaches. It is also suggested that the national cultures and individual backgrou...

Authors: Akbar Akbar and Michelle Picard

Exam cheating among Quebec’s preservice teachers: the influencing factors

This article presents the results of a research that aimed to examine the phenomenon of student cheating on exams in faculties of education in Quebec universities. A total of 573 preservice teachers completed ...

Authors: Sylvie Fontaine, Eric Frenette and Marie-Hélène Hébert

Attitudes towards cheating behavior during assessing students᾽performance: student and teacher perspectives

Our aim in this study was to determine students’ and teachers’ attitudes towards cheating in assessing students’ performance. We used mixed methodology and the main research method was a case study. We aimed t...

Authors: Dijana Vučković, Sanja Peković, Marijana Blečić and Rajka Đoković

Addressing contract cheating in Kosovo and international practices

Although there is much research on the contract cheating phenomenon, there is very little research on the legal solutions available to address such problems and almost zero research on the contract cheating ph...

Authors: Sabiha Shala, Mimoza Hyseni-Spahiu and Afrim Selimaj

Students’ awareness of the academic integrity policy at a Latvian university

An academic integrity policy usually specifies the university’s ethical principles and values, the forms of appropriate academic behaviour, the penalties for academic malpractice and the procedures for handlin...

Authors: Alla Anohina-Naumeca, Ilze Birzniece and Tatjana Odiņeca

Academic integrity and the implementation of the honour code in the clinical training of undergraduate dental students

Educational pressures such as challenging workload, demanding deadlines and competitiveness among undergraduate dental students erode academic integrity in clinical training. The implementation of honour codes...

Authors: Vidya Raman and Shaun Ramlogan

In memoriam: Tracey Bretag (1962–2020)

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Ethical considerations in adult and community education research in Nigeria: issues and perspectives

There is a growing international interest in ethical issues in research and the process by which it can be enhanced. Unlike in the past when research studies were conducted abruptly, almost all organisations a...

Authors: Sunday Olawale Olaniran and Ikeoluwapo B. Baruwa

Detecting and prosecuting contract cheating with evidence – a “Doping Test” approach

Contract cheating – outsourcing student assignments for a fee – presents a growing threat to the integrity of higher education. As contract cheating is based on students purchasing assignments that are origina...

Authors: Pauli Alin

Managing the mutations: academic misconduct in Australia, New Zealand and the UK

Academic misconduct is a problem of growing concern across the tertiary education sector. While plagiarism has been the most common form of academic misconduct, the advent of software programs to detect plagia...

Authors: Melanie Birks, Jane Mills, Steph Allen and Stephen Tee

First-year university students’ knowledge of academic misconduct and the association between goals for attending university and receptiveness to intervention

Academic misconduct (AM) runs rampant across higher education institutions in the US and internationally. Ample empirical research has identified myriad student variables that predict AM. However, two variable...

Authors: Jed Locquiao and Bob Ives

Commercial contract cheating provision through micro-outsourcing web sites

As the contract cheating market has become more sophisticated and competition has intensified, the contract cheating industry has had to redevelop its approach to gain custom. The industry has developed new mo...

Authors: Thomas Lancaster

Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education

Although there is much discussion exploring the potential causes of plagiarism, there is limited research available which provides evidence as to the academic interventions which may help reduce this. This pap...

Authors: Mike Perkins, Ulas Basar Gezgin and Jasper Roe

Impact of academic integrity on workplace ethical behaviour

Corruption is a serious problem in Mexico and the available information regarding the levels of academic dishonesty in Mexico is not very encouraging. Academic integrity is essential in any teaching-learning p...

Authors: Jean Gabriel Guerrero-Dib, Luis Portales and Yolanda Heredia-Escorza

Surveying fake news: Assessing university faculty’s fragmented definition of fake news and its impact on teaching critical thinking

This paper reports on the results of a survey of faculty members at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in Los Angeles, California regarding their understanding of and familiarity with the concept o...

Authors: Andrew P. Weiss, Ahmed Alwan, Eric P. Garcia and Julieta Garcia

Are essay mills committing fraud? A further analysis of their behaviours vs the 2006 fraud act (UK)

Many strategies have been proposed to address the supply of bespoke essays and other assignments by companies often described as ‘Essay Mills’ with the act of supply and use being invariably described as ‘cont...

Authors: Michael J. Draper and Callum Reid-Hutchings

Interinstitutional perspectives on contract cheating: a qualitative narrative exploration from Canada

This paper explores contract cheating from the perspectives of researchers at three post-secondary institutions in Alberta, Canada, describing their efforts to develop and advance awareness of, interventions a...

Authors: Sarah Elaine Eaton, Nancy Chibry, Margaret A. Toye and Silvia Rossi

Are Canadian professors teaching the skills and knowledge students need to prevent plagiarism?

Max 150 words. If possible, please submit your abstract in both English and French.

Authors: Martine Peters and Alain Cadieux

Academic nursing leadership in the U.S.: a case study of competition, compromise and moral courage

Public, private, non-profit and for-profit nursing education enterprises in the U.S. are competing with one another in a newly complex and volatile educational landscape, placing academic leaders into situatio...

Authors: Tom Olson and Eileen Walsh

Understanding plagiarism in Indonesia from the lens of plagiarism policy: lessons for universities

Plagiarism is viewed as a critical issue that can hinder the development of creativity and innovation in Indonesia. Thus, since the early 2000s the Indonesian government has endeavoured to develop policies to ...

Authors: Akbar Akbar and Michelle Picard

Collaborative case-based learning process in research ethics

The increasing concern about ethics and integrity in research communities has brought attention to how students and junior academics can be trained on this regard. Moreover, it is known that ethical behaviour ...

Authors: Anu Tammeleht, María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Kairi Koort and Erika Löfström

Developing a university-wide academic integrity E-learning tutorial: a Canadian case

Academic integrity has become a significant point of concern in the post-secondary landscape, and many institutions are now exploring ways on how to implement academic integrity training for students. This pap...

Authors: Lyle Benson, Kristin Rodier, Rickard Enström and Evandro Bocatto

Academic integrity and contract cheating policy analysis of colleges in Ontario, Canada

In this study, we analyzed the academic integrity policies of colleges in Ontario, Canada, casting a specific lens on contract cheating. We extracted data from 28 individual documents from 22-publicly-funded c...

Authors: Brenda M. Stoesz, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Jennifer Miron and Emma J. Thacker

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