Abstract

The availability of computer technologies and electronic tools for academic materials has increased the focus on plagiarism studies from different angles. Perceptions of plagiarism and attitudes against plagiarism are two topics that have piqued the interest of researchers. The aim of this article is to provide a critical analysis of research that have been undertaken to investigate staff and student views of plagiarism and attitudes toward it. It also includes a study of research on the causes that contribute to plagiarism. Most research on plagiarism beliefs and attitudes toward plagiarism lack an in-depth study of the relationship between plagiarism perceptions and other contextual, sociocultural, and institutional variables, or the relationship between attitudes toward plagiarism and students' perceptions of different types of plagiarism, according to our examination of studies. While our analysis reveals that a variety of variables can lead to plagiarism, no taxonomy can account for all of them.

Key words: plagiarism, researchers, taxonomy