Plagiarism and text recycling have recently received considerable media attention and public scrutiny, particularly with the advent of increasingly sophisticated plagiarism detection tools. Many publishers and funding agencies already routinely employ such tools in their evaluation of manuscripts, proposals and reports.<\/p>\n
This reflects the fact that plagiarism is considered a form of research misconduct by federal funding agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and by scientific\/scholarly publishers. Indeed, funding agencies can enact significant penalties when plagiarism is uncovered\u2014including requiring the return of awards \/ funding, and barring of the submission of new proposals (among other sanctions).<\/p>\n