[marbletimes]

It is a tricky subject. When I referred to a model I had published elsewhere, I was asked to write about the model again in the current paper, since readers may not be able to access or want to access the other paper. But more recently, I was asked to do the opposite, since the model I was writing about in the Methods section was the same I had published elsewhere.

I see no reason to change terms and structure in scientific publications so as not to plagiarize myself.

[Ansil849]

> I see no reason to change terms and structure in scientific publications so as not to plagiarize myself.

There generally is no reason to change terms and the like. The solution is simply to cite one's prior work when quoting from it - the lack of the latter (citing that a given text is one's prior work) is what constitutes self-plagiarism, not the mere reuse of terminology.

[dagw]

My wife wrote two papers covering different aspects of the same experiment, and copy and pasted the experiment setup description (a couple of paragraphs) from one paper to the other. The plagiarism detection software of the journal she tried to publish the second paper in flagged the paragraphs and they refused to publish until she 'fixed' it.