One of my duties as Editor-in-Chief Foot & Ankle Surgery: Techniques, Reports Cases (FASTRAC) is to review each manuscript prior its navigation through the formal process. interesting functions editorial system FASTRAC uses anti-plagiarism software called iThenticate (http://www.ithenticate.com/index.html). In fact, it very prominently featured near top task bar associated with submission. prov...

There is a staggering upsurge in the incidence of plagiarism of scientific literature. Literature shows divergent views about the factors that make plagiarism reprehensible. This review explores the causes and remedies for the perennial academic problem of plagiarism. Data sources were searched for full text English language articles published from 2000 to 2015. Data selection was done using me...

Text alignment is a sub-task in the plagiarism detection process. In this paper we discuss our approach to address this problem. Our approach is based on mapping text alignment to the problem of subsequence matching just as previous works. We have prepared a framework, which lets us combine different feature types and different strategies for merging the features. We have proposed two different...

plagiarism is a serious debate in scientific community and in recent years has been in the center of interest in academic and scientific communities. plagiarism is considered as an unethical and improper act, because it constitutes theft from an intellectual work. self-plagiarism is considered as a sort of plagiarism and is defined as an improper release of information as a new idea, or using m...

Plagiarism is a form of cheating, by which one presents as her/his work, what others have done. It may be severely punished, and could cause serious problems later in life. Self-plagiarism is also possible. Plagiarism, its consequences and and how to avoid it are discussed further below. 1 Plagiarism: What is it? Plagiarism often involves dishonest use of work done by others (including work in ...

The 1st International Competition on Plagiarism Detection, held in conjunction with the 3rd PAN workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, brought together researchers from many disciplines around the exciting retrieval task of automatic plagiarism detection. The competition was divided into the subtasks external plagiarism detection and intrinsic plagiarism dete...

plagiarism is considered to be a very serious offence in most academic communities, particularly among western academia. there has been much discussion regarding the influential factors which result in plagiarism, such as ignorance and cultural attitudes. in the case of efl/esl students, it has been suggested that acts of plagiarism are often committed because students lack the proficiency to p...

Self-plagiarism requires clear definition within an environment that places integrity at the heart of the research enterprise. This paper explores the whole notion of self-plagiarism by academics and distinguishes between appropriate and inappropriate textual re-use in academic publications, while considering research on other forms of plagiarism such as student plagiarism. Based on the practic...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...