Publishing ethics explained Part 1: What’s the difference between ‘image re-use’ and ‘fabrication?

Plagiarism by mistake is one thing but making stuff up is quite another!

Did you know that you can’t just re-use figures from your own earlier publications? Yes! It’s possible to steal from yourself. Inadvertent plagiarism can happen, a topic covered here.

Re-using an image from an earlier paper is re-publishing something that you, or another author, has previous used in an earlier article. This is possible, but requires perm…