Plagiarism - time to strike at the epidemic

We live in a globalized world where information is instantly shared across continents. The number of biomedical journals available for reference is quite enormous and there is a sudden huge surge of free open access journals in the last few years. The publications of articles take place at a rate beyond anybody’s comprehension. Thus, it is understandably difficult to keep track of who has added what into the different volumes of issues and piles of the scientific literature available in our media technology today (1).