RE: Is the human blood green in colour besides being red?

almost 3 years ago (Edited)

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Quick condemnation as speedy downvote makes it look personal without getting my view on the matter first. It's fine regardless.

You're not wrong. It looks personal, but perhaps it is to a degree. I review a lot of articles. Not many people respond. And I can't always go back to check on whether or not the author corrects the issue. So, I'm thankful you did.

One of the areas I highlighted definitely needed quotations otherwise it's copy/paste. The other example is just paraphrasing what was already available.

Also, I've written research papers before. I've never heard of a "20-30% allowance".

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@adamada 73

almost 3 years ago

Make him cite where that 20-30% allowance came from, one of the sources probably came from his ass.

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@cyprianj 69

almost 3 years ago (Edited)

By 20-30% allowance, I meant plagiarism score checks before paper submission.

The necessary correction has been effected.

I appreciate your critical review of the article regardless and I apologize for that omission.

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@traciyork 75

almost 3 years ago

You might want to revisit the notion that 20-30% plagiarized content is acceptable to anyone, @cyprianj.

From the Editage Insights website -

Q: What is the acceptable percentage of plagiarism [in a] report?

Answer: There is a lack of consensus or clear-cut-rules on what percentage of plagiarism is acceptable in a manuscript. Going by the convention, usually a text similarity below 15% is acceptable by the journals and a similarity of >25% is considered as high percentage of plagiarism.

But even in case of 15% similarity, if the matching text is one continuous block of borrowed material, it will be considered as plagiarized text of significant concern. On the other hand, text similarity due to the usage of common terminologies and method related details in ‘Methodology’ part of a manuscript should not raise a serious ethical concern.

And to be clear, "usage of common terminologies" certainly doesn't cover taking entire sentences verbatim, or even slightly rewording to make them ~~harder to detect by plag checkers~~ seem original.

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