Copycat Articles Seem Rife in Science Journals, a Digital Sleuth Finds

Faculty members gnash their teeth and wring their hands when students plagiarize. They cry for offenders to be punished. But now an online text-search program directed at their own work suggests that professors in biomedicine may be just as guilty of paper-writing sins.

More than 70,000 article abstracts appeared disturbingly similar to other published work when scanned by a new search program, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report in the

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