A review paper on awareness statistics on plagiarism among research scholars

摘要

In Academia, plagiarism is considered as an academic dishonesty (crime) or violation of copyright law. Like any other crime, this academic offense should also be payable by a specific penalty. For this purpose, A self-made questionnaires have been designed and data have been collected through an online survey between 11th Sep 2015 and 24th September 2015 via the Google forms. The objective of this study is to find out the awareness statistics on plagiarism among the research scholars of Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, INDIA. The Survey form was mailed to approx 200 students on their E-mail addresses and 147 responses received back and then data was tabulated, analyzed, interpreted and presented according to their highest qualification. In this survey 43 graduates, 69 postgraduates, 27 doctored and 8 others scholars were participated.