A brief review of plagiarism in medical scientific research papers

Abstract

The term known as "plagiarism" was first coined in English around the year 1601 by the dramatist Ben Jonson, in order to characterize someone committing theft in literary (1(. Plagiarism itself has a long life history. There are countless plagiarism cases in almost every specialty in science. In astronomy, David King (a British professor of the history of science) noticed that most theories and models proposed by the famous Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in his famous book (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) were virtually adopted from Arab scientist, Ibn-Elshatir's book (2,3). Writing reports and articles about plagiarism dates to late 1800s when the

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