An Editorial in the 8 July 2010 issue of Nature tackled the thorny issue of plagiarism. Editors at an increasing number of publishing houses now have access to Crosscheck, a program that uses iThenticate plagiarism software to compare submitted articles against a database of published articles from 83 commercial and learned society publishers. Clear cases of plagiarism (copying of another's work without attribution or citation) need to be effectively dealt with, but self-plagiarism (reproducing your own work) can be a complex issue, especially for reviews journals.
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