Abstract
Introduction: Plagiarism is one of the most frequent and serious forms of misconduct in academic environment. The cross-sectional survey study was done with aim to explore the attitudes toward plagiarism.
Highlights
Plagiarism is one of the most frequent and serious forms of misconduct in academic environment
Plan and program to educate students about academic integrity and research methodology is required on all educational level
The Attitude toward Plagiarism (ATP) questionnaire [23] was used to assess students’ attitudes. It consists of two parts: demographic data and the attitude toward plagiarism scale measuring three attitudinal factors: positive attitude, negative attitude and subjective norms
Summary
Plagiarism is one of the most frequent and serious forms of misconduct in academic environment. Scientific and professional work in the field of biomedicine requires great responsibility, total commitment and serious and honest lifetime work and learning. Unprofessional behaviour such as scientific misconduct can directly provoke mistakes and seriously damage people’s health and even life [1,2]. It would be logical to deduce that students who want to undertake this profession have same integrity and moral values.
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