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Academic integrity and plagiarism

Academic integrity and plagiarism is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1954. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on research misconduct, academic integrity, and unethical behavior in scientific and academic settings. It covers topics such as plagiarism, academic dishonesty, research integrity, scientific misconduct, ethics education, retractions, cheating behavior, publication ethics, contract cheating, and online proctoring.

  • Plagiarism
  • Academic Dishonesty
  • Research Integrity
  • Scientific Misconduct
  • Ethics Education
  • Retractions
  • Cheating Behavior
  • Publication Ethics
  • Contract Cheating
  • Online Proctoring
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+43%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Academic integrity and plagiarism

Which countries lead Academic integrity and plagiarism research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (644 and 330 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 644 works
  2. 2 India 330 works
  3. 3 China 204 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 185 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 172 works
  6. 6 Canada 158 works
  7. 7 Australia 114 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 101 works
  9. 9 Germany 97 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 71 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 31.0%India: 15.9%China: 9.8%United Kingdom: 8.9%6 others listed: 34.4%31%largest
United States644 · 31.0%India330 · 15.9%China204 · 9.8%United Kingdom185 · 8.9%6 others listed714 · 34.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Academic integrity and plagiarism research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Calgary publishes the most Academic integrity and plagiarism research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and Coventry University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of CalgaryCanada 36 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 17 works
  3. 3 Coventry UniversityUnited Kingdom 12 works
  4. 4 University of WollongongAustralia 12 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 11 works
  7. 7 University of ManitobaCanada 11 works
  8. 8 University of Cape CoastGhana 10 works
  9. 9 Swansea UniversityUnited Kingdom 9 works
  10. 10 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Academic integrity and plagiarism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Academic integrity and plagiarism include David Moher, John P. A. Ioannidis and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  5. 5 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  6. 6 Isabelle Boutron France 271k citations
  7. 7 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  8. 8 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  9. 9 Matthew James Page Australia 235k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Academic integrity and plagiarism?

The most cited paper in Academic integrity and plagiarism is "Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach" (Mary R. Lea, Brian VVE Street, 1998), with 2,601 citations. Next come "Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT" (2,473) and "Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling" (2,374).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach Mary R. Lea, Brian VVE Street · Studies in Higher Education 1998 2,601
2 Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT Debby Cotton, Peter A. Cotton, J. Reuben Shipway · Innovations in Education and Teaching International Open access 13 Mar 2023 2,473
3 Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling Leslie K. John, George F. Loewenstein, Dražen Prelec · Psychological Science 16 Apr 2012 2,374
4 Comparison of Two Methods to Detect Publication Bias in Meta-analysis Jaime Peters · JAMA 7 Feb 2006 2,341
5 How Does ChatGPT Perform on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)? The Implications of Large Language Models for Medical Education and Knowledge Assessment Aidan Gilson, Conrad W. Safranek, Thomas Yoyan Huang et al. · JMIR Medical Education Open access 8 Feb 2023 2,163
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Where is Academic integrity and plagiarism research done?

The largest centres of Academic integrity and plagiarism research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Calgary (Canada), Beijing (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Calgary.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 42 works
  2. 2 CalgaryCanada 41 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 32 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 28 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 26 works
  6. 6 PuneIndia 24 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 24 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 22 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CalgaryCA · 40.8 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Academic integrity and plagiarism than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Academic integrity and plagiarism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Calgary, Swansea University and The University of Western Australia score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 14.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Swansea UniversityThe University of We…University of CalgaryUniversity of Wollon…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of CalgaryCanada 77.120.2%17.6×36 +56.3%
2Swansea UniversityUnited Kingdom 69.731.3%15.4×9 +307.7%
3The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 54.923.9%6.5×8 +132.5%
4University of WollongongAustralia 54.511.2%13.2×12 +119.0%
5Deakin UniversityAustralia 49.417.9%6.6×9 +118.4%
6Coventry UniversityUnited Kingdom 45.73.9%31.0×12 +292.3%
7University of TorontoCanada 38.713.7%1.8×11 +88.8%
8Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 37.91.7%7.3×17 +91.7%
9University of ManitobaCanada 37.78.6%10.4×11 -1.4%
10University of South AfricaSouth Africa 37.615.4%6.9×9 +68.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Academic integrity and plagiarism, country by country

Is Academic integrity and plagiarism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Academic integrity and plagiarism.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Academic integrity and plagiarism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Academic integrity and plagiarism0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Academic integrity and plagiarism over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Academic integrity and plagiarism10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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