السرقة العلمية كعائق للبحث العلمي في ظل تطور التقنية الرقمية

Abstract EN

The concept of Academic research includes any systemic and methodological work that is aimed to improve human knowledge.

By providing solutions for different social problems, this improvement eventually reflects into the improvement of human lives in all domains (economic, political, social.

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In order to come up with solid, scientific and applicable outcomes, these researches must have been conducted through clear methodology set by the university or the institute.

However the researcher can be creative, he still must be faithful to the existing researches done by previous people.

Stealing other works without giving credit to the owner is known as Plagiarism.

It is a widespread phenomenon that threatens scientific works.

Nowadays, with the little control over internet and free online publications, the originality and validity of academic research is at worse day by day.

This paper aims to answer basic questions related to the problem such as: what means plagiarism ? What are the reasons behind? How can it be faced ?