Detecting plagiarism and similarity between documents written in the same language can be done with high precision with today’s top search systems; there are both free e.g. Plagiarisma (2012), Copyscape (2012) and commercial ones available to use e.g. PlagAware (2012), turnitin (2012). With the spread of foreign language knowledge and the growing number of international students, a new form of ...

Increased access to the Internet has dramatically increased the sources from which students can deliberately or accidentally copy information. This paper discusses our motivation to design, implement, and deploy an Internet based plagiarism detection system, called PAIRwise, to address this growing problem. We give details as to how we detect plagiarism and the various development phases we wen...

Recently, the problem of plagiarism is becoming an important issue in many debates in the fields of Education and Technology. The wide use and availability of electronic resources makes it easy for students, authors and even academic people to access and use any piece of information and embed it into his/ her own work without proper citation. The problem is raising in an exponential manner the ...

Background Plagiarism is common and threatens the integrity of the scientific literature. However, its detection is time consuming and difficult, presenting challenges to editors and publishers who are entrusted with ensuring the integrity of published literature. Methods In this study, the extent of plagiarism in manuscripts submitted to a major specialty medical journal was documented. We m...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to develop a questionnaire in order to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of the faculty members and students toward plagiarism. METHODS A KAP study was conducted from June to October 2011 enrolling 390 volunteers anonymously (response rate 96%). The questionnaire included the following four parts: (a) general characteristics like gender, acade...

This paper looks at the background and history of plagiarism and self plagiarism, reviews aspects of academic self plagiarism from the academic, the institution and publisher’s point of view and provides a handy check-list of the current definitions and requirements.

This paper presents a survey of computer algorithms used for the detection of student plagiarism. A summary of several algorithms is provided. Common features of the different plagiarism detection algorithms are described. Ethical and administrative issues involving detected plagiarism are discussed.

a r t i c l e i n f o This study investigates factors affecting the adoption of anti-plagiarism software. Using protection motivation theory as a basis, this research examines the influence of threat and coping appraisals, along with social influences, moral obligation, and actual control variables, on the adoption of anti-plagiarism software. A field survey of 218 faculty members working at U....

The Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (biij), like all other scientific journals, is concerned with the serious issue of plagiarism. The Publications Committee of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) has prepared an editorial on plagiarism, which is reproduced here with some modifications, with permission from the IOMP. In addition, this editorial is also consisten...

Different similarity measures are available for comparison of textual data. These similarity measures are used for plagiarism detection. This research paper proposes a new similarity measure. Moreover, this paper proposes to consider length of content for plagiarism score determination. General Terms Data mining, plagiarism detection.