Brian Martin: publications on plagiarism and scientific fraud

Edited book section

Brian Martin, section editor, Section IX, "Integrity versus fraud and corruption", in Tracey Bretag (editor), Handbook of Academic Integrity (Singapore: Springer, 2016).

Major articles

Brian Martin, "Plagiarism," chapter 4 in Official Channels (Sparsnas, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2020), pp. 116-133. Official procedures for dealing with plagiarism are toxic when applied to students but feeble when applied to powerful individuals.

Brian Martin. Countering supervisor exploitation. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 45, No. 1, October 2013, pp. 74-86. Practical advice for research students.

Brian Martin. Plagiarism struggles. Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification, Vol. 3, 2008. Tactics used by (alleged) plagiarists and those trying to detect or expose them.

Brian Martin. Plagiarism: a misplaced emphasis. Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1994, pp. 36-47. On the over-emphasis on competitive plagiarism and the neglect of institutionalised plagiarism.

Brian Martin. Scientific fraud and the power structure of science. Prometheus, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 1992, pp. 83-98. How the definition of scientific fraud omits many commonplace forms of misrepretation and bias and serves the interests of scientific elites.

Brian Martin. Fraud and Australian academics. Thought and Action, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1989, pp. 95-102.

Brian Martin. Plagiarism and responsibility. Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1984, pp. 183-190.

Other articles

Brian Martin. Comment: citation shortcomings: peccadilloes or plagiarism? Interfaces, Vol. 38, No. 2, March-April 2008, pp. 136-137.

Brian Martin. Plagiarism: policy against cheating or policy for learning? 4 February 2004. A short version was published in Nexus (Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Association), Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 15-16.

Brian Martin. Agent Orange: the new controversy. Australian Society, Vol. 5, No. 11, November 1986, pp. 25-26. On the Agent Orange Royal Commission's plagiarism of Monsanto's submission.

Brian Martin. Exploiting the academic peons. Australian Society, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 28-29 (1 October 1983). Reprinted as: Academic exploitation. In: Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell and Cedric Pugh (eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986), pp. 59-62.

Articles in news media

Brian Martin. When ghosts plagiarise. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 31 October 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/31/2406376.htm On the plagiarism by the ghostwriter for politican Julie Bishop.

Brian Martin. Academic credit where it's due. Campus Review, Vol. 7, No. 21, 4-10 June 1997, p. 11.

Brian Martin. Plagiarism by university students: the problem and some proposals. Tertangala, 20 July - 3 August 1992, p. 20.


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