Howdy all,

I'm currently writing a journal paper on the same topic as one of my prior conference submissions. Although the approach and experimentation are dramatically different, the reasoning behind the ideas in the new paper is basically the same as that for the conference paper. As a result, the conference paper's intro is great to use in this new paper.

I don't want to adjust the wording just to avoid self plagiarism, but I will if I have to. Does anyone know what the procedure for this is? Can you re-use intro text without self plagiarising? Problem is that the conference is from one organization and the journal is from another, so it's not like I can just claim I'm extending the word (which i'm not anyway, the approaches to solving the problems are quite different...)

Thoughts?

If you point out in your manuscript that you had vocally presented your paper partially or totally at a conference, in my opinion, It wouldn't mean plagiarism

Was the conference paper published formally in proceedings, or did you just present it? If it's the former, then you can't reuse the introduction, but if it's the latter it's OK to reuse the text, providing the original isn't currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. What you need to avoid is duplicate published text - I've seen journals retract articles for duplication, and that is really not something you'd want on your c.v.

Good points. I'll definitely adjust it and do more specific analysis of the literature so that it's not self-plagiarized. Thanks!