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Plagiarism: An academic theft

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  1. 1Department of Pharmacy, Railway Road Campus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, PAKISTAN.

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Barkat Ali Khan

Department of Pharmacy, Railway Road Campus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, PAKISTAN.

barki.gold@gmail.com

Volume 1, Issue 4 · pp. 255 · 2012 · DOI: 10.4103/2230-973X.93003

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I have read the editorial note titled 'Plagiarism: an editor's concern' by Dr Javed Ali and found it a bold and great decision by IJPI. Plagiarism is a serious contravention in modern age academic writing and research and has turned into a serious problem. Though there is no absolute definition for plagiarism, according to James M Nugent 'Plagiarism, like shoplifting and smoking marijuana, is wrong, and it is a corruption of academic life, and we should do what we can to end it.'[1] However, we must differentiate between similarity index and plagiarism. Most of the software like iThenticate (http://www.ithenticate. com), Viper (http://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism-free- software), Turnitin (https://turnitin.com/static/index) available for detecting plagiarism do not actually detect plagiarism rather detect similarity index. Similarity index is the reflection of the total percentage of matched words that a system finds for a submission.[2] Similarity index also detects some very common word like E-mail IDs, phone numbers, address of academic affiliation etc., even if appeared in an article by the same authors.

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    Khan, B. A. (2012). Plagiarism: An academic theft. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation, 1(4), 255. https://doi.org/10.4103/2230-973X.93003

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