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Area of Science:

  • Scientific ethics
  • Academic integrity
  • Scholarly communication

Background:

  • Text recycling, commonly termed self-plagiarism, is the reuse of previously published textual content in new scholarly works.
  • This practice raises significant ethical and practical concerns within the scientific community.
  • Existing discourse has not comprehensively addressed the multifaceted challenges associated with text recycling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically identify and discuss the ethical and practical factors influencing text recycling in scientific publishing.
  • To propose a refined definition of text recycling that incorporates these identified factors.
  • To clarify the boundaries and considerations surrounding the appropriate use of prior textual material.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review and discussion of ethical and practical considerations.
  • Analysis of existing discourse on text recycling and self-plagiarism.
  • Development of a new definition based on identified factors.

Main Results:

  • Identification of key ethical and practical challenges in text recycling.
  • Distinction between text recycling and other forms of reuse.
  • Consideration of factors influencing the appropriateness of text recycling, including visual materials.

Conclusions:

  • A new, comprehensive definition of text recycling is proposed.
  • The study provides a framework for understanding and navigating the complexities of reusing one's own text.
  • Further discourse is needed to fully address the implications of text recycling in science.