Plagiarism, whether self-plagiarism or any other form of it, has become a major challenge for scientific journals. Electronically available sources and technical means of copying have become an easy resource for authors to add text-sometimes major sections-from their own or others' articles into a new report or study. Nevertheless, plagiarism in any form is not accepted by academic and scientific institutions and is of major concern in the eyes of journal editors. Any amount of verbatim copying from a previously published article, whether from personal material or that of others, is not acceptable in scientific publishing.
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