Abstract :
Plagiarism, taking written material (i.e. sentences, words, ideas, etc.) of other people without adequate citation, is one of the most common types of misconduct in scientific pub- lication. It may have a spectrum of consequences from sim- ply copying a sentence to data theft. Elizabeth Wager of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) states that “the theft of data may constitute not only plagiarism but also data fabrication since the work was not done by the copier
