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Attitude towards plagiarism among Iranian medical students
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- Research ethics
- autonomy
- behaviour modification
- biostatistics
- clinical ethics
- minorities
- Islamic bioethics
- human dignity
- professionalism
- stem cells
- abortion
- euthanasia
- transplantation
- end of life
- medical ethics
- embryos and foetuses
- women
- allocation of healthcare resources
- cloning
- HIV infection and AIDS
- general
- concept of mental health
- mentally disabled persons
- healthcare for specific diseases/groups
In recent years, scientific misconduct has received significant attention within the scientific community. Plagiarism is the most frequent type of scientific misconduct and is defined as ‘unauthorised appropriation of another's work, ideas, methods, results or words without acknowledging the source and original author’.1 ,2 …
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