%0 Generic %1 citron2014patterns %A Citron, Daniel T. %A Ginsparg, Paul %D 2014 %K plagiarism reuse science text %R 10.1073/pnas.1415135111 %T Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2716 %X We consider the incidence of text "reuse" by researchers, via a systematic pairwise comparison of the text content of all articles deposited to arXiv.org from 1991--2012. We measure the global frequencies of three classes of text reuse, and measure how chronic text reuse is distributed among authors in the dataset. We infer a baseline for accepted practice, perhaps surprisingly permissive compared with other societal contexts, and a clearly delineated set of aberrant authors. We find a negative correlation between the amount of reused text in an article and its influence, as measured by subsequent citations. Finally, we consider the distribution of countries of origin of articles containing large amounts of reused text.

@misc{citron2014patterns, abstract = {We consider the incidence of text "reuse" by researchers, via a systematic pairwise comparison of the text content of all articles deposited to arXiv.org from 1991--2012. We measure the global frequencies of three classes of text reuse, and measure how chronic text reuse is distributed among authors in the dataset. We infer a baseline for accepted practice, perhaps surprisingly permissive compared with other societal contexts, and a clearly delineated set of aberrant authors. We find a negative correlation between the amount of reused text in an article and its influence, as measured by subsequent citations. Finally, we consider the distribution of countries of origin of articles containing large amounts of reused text.}, added-at = {2014-12-09T10:07:10.000+0100}, author = {Citron, Daniel T. and Ginsparg, Paul}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fe6dbc1ca177988f7fb9e4d7f0ae1c7c/marcogherardi}, description = {Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1415135111}, interhash = {ba83ceb3e7b344d87bda3fc7a92ba479}, intrahash = {fe6dbc1ca177988f7fb9e4d7f0ae1c7c}, keywords = {plagiarism reuse science text}, note = {cite arxiv:1412.2716Comment: 6 pages, plus 10 pages of supplementary material. To appear in PNAS (online 8 Dec 2014)}, timestamp = {2014-12-09T10:07:10.000+0100}, title = {Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2716}, year = 2014 }