self-plagiarism

English

Alternative forms

• selfplagiarism

Etymology

From self- +‎ plagiarism.

Noun

self-plagiarism (countable and uncountable, plural self-plagiarisms)

1. Reuse of words, ideas, or artistic expression from material one had previously published or submitted, especially without acknowledgment of their earlier publication or submission.
   • 1984, D Goldblatt, “Self-plagiarism”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism:

     I want to present the view that style plays a role in artworld conditions that allows for successful self-plagiarisms.

   • 1994, Pamela Samuelson, “Self-plagiarism or fair use”, in Communications of the ACM:

     Gross vs. Seligman (decided in 194) seems to be the only case in U.S. copyright history in which the owner of a copyright won an infringement lawsuit against a self-plagiarist.

   • 2013 December, Colleen Halupa, Doris U. Bolliger, “Faculty Perceptions of Student Self Plagiarism: An Exploratory Multi-university Study”, in Journal of Academic Ethics, volume 11, number 4, pages 297–310:

     The purpose of this research study was to evaluate faculty perceptions regarding student self-plagiarism or recycling of student papers. Although there is a plethora of information on plagiarism and faculty who self-plagiarize in publications, there is very little research on how faculty members perceive students re-using all or part of a previously completed assignment in a second assignment. […] Although faculty agreed students need to be educated on self-plagiarism, faculty assumed students had previously been educated on plagiarism as well as self-plagiarism; only 13 % ensured students understood this concept.

   • 2016, Ashokan Arumugam , BPT, MPT, PhD & Fahad K. Aldhafiri , PhD, “A researcher’s ethical dilemma: Is self-plagiarism a condemnable practice or not?”, in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, volume 32, number 6, published 2016 June 3, pages 427–429:

     Based on the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), self-plagiarism has been classified into four categories: (1) Text recycling: Text recycling refers to cloning of larger sections of one’s previously published text in a subsequent paper; (2) Redundant publication: This occurs when covert duplicate publication of one’s own work appears in two or more journals with the same data, results, and discussion, with or without editing; (3) Augmented publication: This is a new paper resulting from the addition of new data to previously published data; and (4) Segmented publication: Segmented publication, known also as salami-slicing, occurs when the results derived for one experiment are published as two or more papers, thereby preventing the readers from obtaining a wider understanding of the overall experiment in a single paper.

Synonyms

• (reuse of one's own words etc.): auto-plagiarism, autoplagiarism

Translations

reuse of one's own words etc.

• Dutch: zelfplagiaat (nl) n
• German: Selbstplagiat (de) n
• Italian: autoplagio (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvplagiering (no) m or f, selvplagiat n

• Polish: autoplagiat m
• Russian: автоплагиат (avtoplagiat)

References

• “self-plagiarism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.