Finding facets of academic integrity and plagiarism through the prism of a citation database

Abstract

With the recent growth of university education and the increasing amount of literature available on the web, there is concern among the academicians and others interested about the research ethics and academic integrity. This paper is an attempt to map the global publication and research trends in the academic integrity and plagiarism issues. The paper uses different bibliometrics, scientometrics and social network tools to map the literature growth pattern, subject areas, document types, source types of scholarly literature. It also analyses subject through keywords analysis and identifies core journals, productive institutes and productive countries. The study is trying to situate India’s position and its research trends in the global landscape. It is observed that the India’s scholarly literature in these areas are increasing in recent years. Although it is not at par with the global literature growth. The keyword analysis observed that Indian literature is more towards computer and ICT related subjects rather than the global research in the medical subject (human is the second most occurring keyword). The study recommends more focused and integrated research approach from Indian researchers.