By Ganiu Bamgbose
I found it interesting that the last two times journals had requested of me to rework aspects of my papers that shared similarities with other works, those other works were actually my own works. Self-plagiarism could be the toughest form of plagiarism to overcome and it manifests in different ways.
Self-plagiarism makes you feel unguilty where there should be guilt. It makes you normalise and/or trivialise an unacceptable act. I have classified self-plagiarism into three and labelled them fraudulent self-plagiarism, frivolous self-plagiarism and fixated self-plagiarism. They shall be discussed in the subsequent paragraphs.
