According to Guideline 13, researchers should provide complete and correct references to their own and others\u2019 preliminary work. Furthermore, Guideline 1 calls for strict honesty with regard to one\u2019s own contributions and those of third parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If preliminary work is incorporated that was produced at least to some extent by a third party<\/em> without appropriate reference, the reader is deceived as to the actual authorship of the intellectual content. In order to ensure the functioning of scientific discourse, readers have a protectable interest in the person identifiable from the text as the author being the person who is originally responsible for writing it. Any deviation from this can potentially constitute a case of scientific misconduct and is regularly sanctioned, e.g. as plagiarism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Guideline 13, it is furthermore contrary to good research practice to recycle preliminary work that is (solely) one\u2019s own<\/em> without providing complete and correct references. Such insufficiently referenced re-use is known as \u201cself-plagiarism\u201d or also as \u201ctext recycling\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term \u201cself-plagiarism\u201d<\/em> refers to a relevant aspect of good research practice. Plagiarism and \u201cself-plagiarism\u201d have in common that they involve the failure to appropriately disclose the origin <\/em>or source <\/em>of a text or text excerpt, for example. The difference between the two has to do with the specific nature of the deceit: in the case of \u201cself-plagiarism\u201d, it concerns the novelty<\/em> (or uniqueness) of the published material; in typical cases of plagiarism, it concerns the authorship <\/em>of the output in question. Recycling one\u2019s own texts may, for example, constitute a dishonest attempt to inflate one\u2019s own publication list or give a false appearance of originality. Possible consequences include individual researchers gaining unfair advantages in competition with others or inflating the research literature in a way that hinders scientific discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When re-using their own texts, researchers must provide reference to previous publications of the relevant material and respect discipline-specific guidelines in doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n
See also<\/h3>Hagenstr\u00f6m, Felix (2022): \u00bbPlagiate\u00ab, in: Wissenschaftliche Fairness. Wissenschaft zwischen Integrit\u00e4t und Fehlverhalten, Bielefeld: transcript, S. 83\u2013138 (available in German only)<\/span><\/a>Hall, Susanne\/Moskovitz, Cary\/Pemberton, Michael (2021): Text Recycling. TRRP Best Practices for Researchers. <\/span><\/a>Moskovitz, Cary (2019): \u00bbText Recycling in Scientific Writing\u00ab, in: Science and Engineering Ethics 25, S. 813\u2013851.<\/div>Moskovitz, Cary \u2014 (2021): \u00bbStandardizing terminology for text recycling in research writing\u00ab, in: Learned Publishing 34, S. 1\u20139.<\/div>Zhang, Yuehong H. (2016): Against Plagiarism. 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