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SUBMITTER: Citron DT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4291616 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Citron Daniel T DT Ginsparg Paul P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141208 1
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 to 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 ...[more]