"Gaps in Ethics 2" Plagiarism Humanities and Social Sciences Version

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The main character is a university student named Yuko. Ever since her undergraduate days, she has thought of copying and pasting as a tool for efficiently writing reports. After completing her master's course and doctoral course, Yuko continued her research activities and is now an associate professor. Having made several achievements through her research, things go smoothly for Yuko, but she is eventually suspected of plagiarism because of her actions regarding her citations and references in her research papers, involving ethical issues.

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"Gaps in Ethics 2" Natural Sciences Version

The story revolves around three university students who have coauthored an acclaimed collaborative research paper on proteins.
They get a notification saying that their joint paper was under suspicion of plagiarism and that the university's misconduct investigation committee was looking into it.

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"Gaps in Ethics 3" Humanities and Social Sciences Version

In the Ikeda lab at Nanyo University, while students work hard to write papers on their own research themes, each member of the lab faces problems related to research ethics issues, such as research data management, authorship, and duplicate submissions.