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Table 1 Types and descriptions of plagiarism

From: Plagiarism in articles published in journals indexed in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL): a comparative analysis between 2013 and 2018

Types of Plagiarism Adaptation in Portuguese Description
1 Word for Word Plagiarism Plágio direto Verbatim copy of an original text without the use of quotation marks or margin indentation to indicate a quotation or the identification of the source by means of a reference.
2 Paraphrasing Plagiarism Plágio Indireto Reproduction of the ideas of an original source using different words, but without identifying the original’s location.
3 Mosaic Plagiarism Plágio Mosaico Unidentified reproduction of fragments of different sources that are mixed with words, conjunctions, and prepositions so that the text makes sense.
4 Collusion Plagiarism Plágio Consentido Presentation of works as being one’s own that were in fact authored by others (friends, colleagues, or relatives, among others) or purchased.
5 Apt Phrase Plagiarism Plágio de Chavão Reproduction of expressions, truisms or phrases provoking the effect elaborated by other authors.
6 Plagiarism of Secondary Sources Plágio de Fontes Reproduction of bibliographic references encountered in other sources that were never consulted directly by the citing author.
7 Self-plagiarism Autoplágio Reproduction of one’s own works previously presented in other circumstances without identifying this fact to obtain one or more advantages, such as being cited in the work of others.
  1. Sources: Badge and Scott 2009; Concordia University 2019; Garcia 2013; Georgetown University (2019); Harris 2001; Loui 2002; Martin 1994; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018; Roig 2015; Stanford University 2019; Starovoytova 2017; University of Cambridge 2019a; b; Universiteit Ghent 2019; The University of Hong Kong 2019; University of Cape Town 2019; University of Pretoria 2019; and University of Oxford 2019
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