Posts Tagged ‘plagiarism checker’

A recent paper in the scientific journal ‘Stem Cells and Development’ was retracted due to the fact that several paragraphs appeared to be plagiarized.  The paper provided research stating that a Newcastle University team had created a method to create human sperm from stem cells. The journal’s editor, Graham Parker, cites retracting the July 8th article due to several paragraphs having been copied […]


Plagiarism is a word that we encounter throughout our lives, during various stages and in multiple environments.   ‘Copying’ was the first manifestation of the word I can remember, sternly used by my kindergarten teacher in reference to a child’s wandering eyes during our coloring activities.    Many other synonymous words were employed as warnings throughout […]