This volume is the first book-length study on post-publication responses to academic plagiarism
in humanities disciplines. It demonstrates that the correction of the scholarly literature for
plagiarism is not a task for editors and publishers alone each member of the research
community has an indispensable role in maintaining the integrity of the published literature in
the aftermath of plagiarism. If untreated academic plagiarism damages the integrity of the
scholarly record corrupts the surrounding academic enterprise and creates inefficiencies
across all levels of knowledge production. By providing case studies from the field of
philosophy and related disciplines the volume exhibits that current post-publication responses
to academic plagiarism are insufficient. It catalogues how humanities disciplines fall short in
comparison with the natural and biomedical sciences for ensuring the integrity of the body of
published research. This volume provides clarity about how to conceptualize the scholarly
record surveys the traditional methods for correcting it and argues for new interventions to
improve the reliability of the body of published research. The book is valuable not only to
those in the field of philosophy and other humanities disciplines but also to those interested
in research ethics meta-science and the sociology of research.
