Considerable attention has been given to the problem of plagiarism, even though journal editors tend to believe this is not a major problem. However, plagiarism can take many different forms ranging from submitting someone else’s published work as your own new publication to redundant publication (someone publishing their own work a second time).

• Are there degrees of plagiarism? For example, does it matter whether the person committing plagiarism is doing so in their own language or to write something in a second language?
• Should we worry more about the number of words copied rather than the extent to which someone is copying the idea(s) of someone else?
• If ideas are more important than the words, how can we detect plagiarism?