Open AccessPrevalencia y capacidad de reconocimiento del plagio académico entre el alumnado del área de economía
Author(s) -
Rubén ComasForgas,
Jaume Sureda Negre
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
el profesional de la información
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1699-2407
pISSN - 1386-6710
DOI - 10.3145/epi.2016.jul.11
Subject(s) - citation , commit , commission , sample (material) , humanities , psychology , sociology , library science , political science , art , chemistry , chromatography , database , computer science , law
The relationship between knowledge of what constitutes academic plagiarism, knowledge of citation norms, and academic plagiarism perpetration among students in their final year of Economics at an average size Spanish university is analyzed. The research counted on the participation of a sample (n=325) of students who responded to a questionnaire prepared ad-hoc for this study. This research highlights the deficits that participating students had in determining when a text is plagiarized and in recognizing a citation or a reference. The results suggest an absence in students’ ability to recognize plagiarism relates directly to the commission of it. The study provides data on students who commit plagiarism accidentally and those who do it intentionall