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Widespread plagiarism detected in many medical journals based in Africa

Around 63% of articles from 100 sampled journals contained some text copied without attribution.
  1. Linda Nordling
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African medical journals have a plagiarism problem. A study that looked at nearly 500 papers in 100 Africa-based journals found that 63% contained some form of plagiarism.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07462-2

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