AUTOPLAGIATUL ÎN EPOCA RECICLĂRII
SELF-PLAGIARISM IN THE ERA OF RECYCLING

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, when recycling is one of the main goals of modern world, as a way to save the planet, the academic environment is also facing the problem of “recycling”, regarded by some authors as a way to save their intellectual, financial and time resources. In this context, self-plagiarism is seen both as the result of the academic requirement to publish a large variety of scientific articles and as a consequence of the exploitation of a certain topic that is well-known to the authors, who thus risk repeating their own ideas and text structures over and over again. Legally speaking, the definition of self-plagiarism is both the publication of an article that entirely or partially copies the content of a text already published by the same author and the duplicate publication, which means submitting the same article, with an identical or different title, for publication in two different volumes or journals, simultaneously or after a certain amount of time. In their defence, the authors who resort to this dishonest practice and “recycle” their own texts say that a scientific method or procedure loses its novelty once it is made public and any other further reference to it sounds redundant. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to present in detail this topic, which raises debates among authors, reviewers and editors, with a view to making the difference between various forms of self-plagiarism and, implicitly, to describe the ethical and legal consequences of this form of academic misdemeanor.

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