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"How dare you accuse me of not writing that article. I didn't even write it!"
This has unironnically happened before (sort of) https://retractionwatch.com/2023/08/30/unethical-and-misleading-researcher-finds-his-name-on-editorial-boards-of-journals-hes-never-heard-of/
I just love how retraction watch just doesn't hold back with statements like this
Loffroy also toned down the offense, saying he wouldn’t care if others had plagiarized his work.
They also just posted his picture on the top of the article.
Plagiarism is misrepresenting someone elses' work as your own, so wouldn't having a ghostwriter write "your" article still be plagiarism regardless?
Not quite what I was taught. It is possible to self-plagiarise, plagiarism only needs to be reproduction of a work with the claim it is your own original work.
I still think that's a ploy by journal publishers to prevent losing their exclusive extortion abilities, but that doesn't really make much difference to the end result.
Self-plagiarism to me is more of a related but separately defined term from "true plagiarism," but defining it based on work rather than author does make a lot of sense.