Scientific plagiarism in legislative and regulatory texts : a comparative study between Algeria and Tunisia

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The aim of this article is to carry out a comparative study between the Algerian and Tunisian legislative and regulatory rules related to the phenomenon of plagiarism.

To do this, we examined the legislative rules contained in the official journals of the Republic of Algeria and that of the Republic of Tunisia.

We then extracted all the rules dealing with the phenomenon, approached the formal analysis of these rules and compared the content of the Algerian and Tunisian texts.

The study revealed that the Tunisian legislator had tackled the problem by promulgating a presidential decree issued in 2008 on the proposal of the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology.

The Algerian legislator, by cons, has been contented with regulatory texts, among which is the ministerial decree published in 2016 setting the rules on the prevention and fight against plagiarism.

The study also concluded that the rules of the Tunisian text on punitive measures impose sanctions according to the extent to which plagiarism affects the substance and value of scientific production, whereas Algerian rules do not take into account this element.