Plagiarism of Academic Writing in Malaysian Universities: A legal analysis
Plagiarism is not a recent issue as it exists for a long time, and it is still happening especially within the academic world. The study aims to examine the applicable laws relating to plagiarism from the academician's perspective by referring to India as the benchmark jurisdiction. As the findings show that there are no standard policies for all educational institutions to cope with plagiarism, Malaysian government need to address the gap in current regulations by having uniform legislation to all institutions pertaining on academic misconduct of the academicians. Keywords: 'academic plagiarism'; 'research plagiarism misconduct'; 'plagiarism policy’ eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: