🔁 Unoriginal (Academic Definition) [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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===== 🔁 Unoriginal (Academic Definition) =====

**Unoriginal** refers to academic work that lacks novelty, creativity, or independent thinking — often repeating established ideas, methods, or frameworks without adding meaningful insight or value.

==== 🔍 Key Features ====
  * **Repackaging** of known content under new titles or buzzwords.
  * **Redundant reviews** that cite the same sources as previous ones with minimal reinterpretation.
  * **Safe conclusions** that align with dominant narratives and avoid controversy or innovation.
  * **Copy-paste structures** mimicking the format of previous high-impact papers.
  * **Academic mimicry** disguised as contribution.

==== 🧱 Common Forms ====
  * Superficial integration of trending topics (e.g., “AI,” “radiomics”) without depth.
  * Predictable, committee-written consensus papers with no fresh insight.
  * Grant-driven publications produced to check boxes rather than solve problems.

==== 🧠 In Practice ====
> A review that discusses “osteosarcopenia and AI” using generalities, without new data, new hypotheses, or new clinical pathways — simply rephrasing what’s already been said in more exciting packaging.

==== 🚫 Consequences ====
  * Wastes academic space and attention.
  * Crowds out original thinkers and disruptive ideas.
  * Perpetuates mediocrity and academic inertia.

==== 📎 Related Terms ====
  * [[mediocrity|Mediocrity]]
  * [[academic_theater|Academic Theater]]
  * [[factory_made_science|Factory-Made Science]]
  * [[careerism|Careerism]]

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**Bottom line**: *Unoriginality is the silent killer of scientific progress — hard to detect when dressed in prestige, but intellectually empty at its core.*