Extrinsic plagiarism detection gathered the attention of many researchers lately. Plagiarism process began to be more and more difficult to be detected due to appearance of other sophisticated plagiarism approaches other than direct copy and paste such as (phrase rephrasing, word shuffling, semantic substitution, etc...). In this paper, we present RDI system for extrinsic plagiarism detection (...

Plagiarism is a significant area of concern in higher education, given university students' high self-reported rates of plagiarism. However, research remains inconsistent in prevalence estimates and suggested precursors of plagiarism. This may be a function of the unclear psychometric properties of the measurement tools adopted. To investigate this, we modified an existing plagiarism scale (to ...

Despite the effort put into the detection of academic plagiarism, it continues to be a ubiquitous problem spanning all disciplines. Various tools have been developed to assist human inspectors by automatically identifying suspicious documents. However, to our knowledge currently none of these tools use mathematical content for their analysis. This is problematic, because mathematical content po...

Plagiarism undoubtedly constitutes a seemingly imperceptible threat to the growth of genuine global scholarship. The understanding of various perspectives of the phenomenon is critical to finding a lasting solution. It is against this background therefore, that the study investigated awareness and perception of plagiarism of postgraduate students in selected Universities in Ogun State Nigeria. ...

Plagiarism is an act of stealing or reflecting others ideas or thoughts without the permission of authority or not mentioning that the ideas are the reflection of the authority. Plagiarism of others paper works is a crime, has been caught by plenty of intelligently coded plagiarism detection systems. The reason for this is lack of awareness about plagiarism. Some people are aware about plagiari...

In a previous paper, we showed that analyzing citation patterns in the well-known plagiarized thesis by K. T. zu Guttenberg clearly outperformed current detection methods in identifying cross-language plagiarism. However, the experiment was a proof of concept and we did not provide a prototype. This paper presents a fully functional, web-based visualization of citation patterns for this verifie...

I read the editorial titled “The detection of plagiarism” with great interest. It is noted that “Faced with this challenge, the editorial board of our journal has decided to introduce CrossCheck. Similar to the case of the Croatian Medical Journal, the plagiarism detection procedure consists of automatic scanning of manuscripts using the software (CrossCheck) and manual verification of manuscri...

This paper introduces AntiPlag, an advanced plagiarism detection tool intended for use on student texts. It is capable of both hermetic detection that scrutinizes only local collections of documents (other students’ texts and lecture materials, for example) and web plagiarism detection, in which the aim is at identifying instances of plagiarism that have been sourced from the Internet. The main...

This paper explores the question of plagiarism by international students (non-native speakers). It argues that the inappropriate use of electronic plagiarism detection systems (such as Turnitin) could lead to the unfair and unjust construction of international students as plagiarists. We argue that the use of detection systems should take into account the writing practices used by those who wri...