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NSF Audit Finds Numerous Cases of Alleged Plagiarism

Posted by Soulskill on from the because-there-are-no-consequences-to-scamming-the-government dept.

sciencehabit writes "The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investigating nearly 100 cases of suspected plagiarism drawn from a single year's worth of proposals funded by the agency. The cases grow out of an internal examination by NSF's Office of Inspector General (IG) of every proposal that NSF funded in fiscal year 2011. James Kroll, head of administrative investigations within the IG's office, tells ScienceInsider that applying plagiarism software to NSF's entire portfolio of some 8000 awards made that year resulted in a 'hit rate' of 1% to 1.5%. 'My group is now swamped,' he says about his staff of six investigators."

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  1. Plagiarism or boilerplate? by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a difference.

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  2. I'm just surprised it's that low by accessbob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When researcher's lives are ruled by arbitrary metrics on volumes of papers published, people will cheat. It's certainly true in computing. Try picking a few papers from the ACM Digital Library and start following the references. Rehash after rehash of other people's papers. Particularly their own...