Academic Integrity in Higher Education: Understanding and Addressing Plagiarism

In short

Plagiarism in higher education is traced to academic pressure, shortage of time, limited knowledge of citation rules and the digital age, with prevention and software also discussed by the authors.

What it looked at

A discussion of plagiarism in higher education: its causes, its consequences for students, educators and institutions, and prevention and detection strategies, including text-matching software.

What it means for teaching

A broad overview that may help when planning citation teaching, though it rests on discussion rather than reported data.

Limits

No sample, data or method is described for the causes it lists.

Cited 110 times by other papers, as counted by OpenAlex in November 2026. A count measures attention, not quality.