Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
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Asked 26th Feb, 2013
How to check plagiarism?
I am not sure whether this question has been asked on research gate or not. If this topic is already their please send me link. One of the problem we are facing is to check duplication (copied from net or research articles or thesis) in a scientific document. When you get document from students or junior colleagues or from your team members you are always worried whether this is orignal writing or copied from net. Though their are number of software and software on net, it is difficult to trust on these software. I wants to know from my colleagues at this platform what is best way to check duplication. Is their any good server or service which can check duplication with high reliability in scientific writing (can check duplication in literature databases such as PubMed).
Most recent answer
I think using Turnitin will be the best solution. I advise you not to use Plagiarism Checker X if you do not have a software license.
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Umxhumanisi Engineering
There is some good advice in the above comments. In combination there are software- and online checkers for plagiarism.
You can try these and similar software and sites to help identify plagiarism. If identical texts are found, to verify that it is not a quote, with a refference to the author.
etc
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Kyung Hee University
You can use the commercial web based service named as turnitin or you can use a free a freeware named viper
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JOB Forward, Singapore
you can use http://plagiarisma.net/ . it is freely available tool for this .
Classified
Our university now use TurnItIn for all undergraduate submissions, but I'm sure you can use this for any type of submission.
Sometimes if plagiarism is suspected it is just useful to type a block of text into google, as Google Books would normally pick this up or whichever website it may be from.
InfiCorridor Solutions Private Limited
You can use this tool not very precise but gives broad idea
or use viper. This is a good freely available tool for plagiarism checking
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Educational Research - Costa Rica
We use a service called "Safe Assignment", which comes with the Blackboard 9.1 learning management system. The advantage of using "Safe Assignment" is that it also checks all submissions against all other papers sent by students in all courses. Usually, web-based plagiarism-check systems only check for portions of text copied from the web, but this one also lets you know if a student is copying content from his or her peers. The limitation is that you have to be using Blackboard as your institutional LMS.
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Wilmington University
Grammerly is awesome it will check for plagiarism it is 140 a year and it checks everything
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Zaporizhzhya National Technical University
Student plagiarism is often possible to identify by style of presentation. A computerized search of plagiarism can also be used. But they are easy to get around, so the results may be unreliable. In responsible situations, I prefer to search in Google on key phrases.
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Goa University
You may register with free online Plagiarism checkers. Viper is a platform where you can upload a document and get checked for Plagiarism
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IRCCS Istituto G. Gaslini and University of Genova
As Reviewer I had this bad experience one time. It is not so common, but I consider this a serius problem. The first thing that I do it is to check the other papers of the autors. There are specific tools to find publication duplication....
Durham University
I often need to check papers for plagarism as I teach Academic writing. I have used turnitin although I did find the software often gave comparisons between work handed in by other students and even by the same student. This tended to give very high percentages of plagarised work when possibly it wasn't. I am sure that much of the other software will produce similar results.
I have found that most students dont plagarise but when they do it is poorly done with many obvious flaws in cohesion and grammar. Often the easiest way of spoting a copied section of writing is the change in style. I have found essays in which the font changes for a paragraph or the method of citation changes. A sudden change in the level of prose or the complexity of the vocabulary used is usually a good indication of plagarism. It is a huge problem as there are many sources of plagarised essays available on the internet. I did have one student who put in his list of references www.writemyessay.com which was a bit of a giveaway.
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You can do the followings:
1. It is better for not to go for free plagiarism check software.
2. Always go for reputed reviewers( although very difficult to find out one)
3. for high level plagiarism check you can use ITHENTICATE PLAGIARISM DETECTION which is being used by top publishers.
4. Apart from the above an intelligent person can detect a plagiarizer document very easily by going through it, since the flow of language will not the there i.e. you will find variations in language level.
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Dr. Patangrao Kadam Mahavidyalaya, Sangli
Difficult question, more difficult answer! Our own phd students can be convinced about the effects of finding out plagiarism ! But again, "easy way out" is today's MANTRA. Change in writing style, usage of words, sudden visibility of very good matter, may prove to be indicators!
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University of Amsterdam
We had a service at the University of Amsterdam, called euphoria. They had outsourced it to a company. Their service was not good because it regarded also quotes as plagiarism.
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University of the Witwatersrand
How can software ever check for similarity of ideas that are not referenced???
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Sir,
I have the following opinion.
1. Never use/ Trust the free staff.
2. Before buying a Plagiarism detection system try trail version if they have any..
3. Otherwise consult some of your colleagues/ friends involved in publication of Journals/conference.
4. You can try the following
Regards
G C Deka
India
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Biocon Research Ltd, Bangalore
Hello
Usually I use this site (http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&gclid=COSf9PSx5bcCFYhxQgodcTwADg)
Here we can check grammar too and it will shows the details of the sentence if we stole the sentence from any other papers.....
Really its very nice and user friendly too...
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Universidad del Atlántico
Are dissertations written by international students in the U.S. and industrial nations being plagiarized by professors in American, Canadian and English Universities?
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Our journal (Journal of Mountain Science) will first check the plagiarism of a manuscript by using ITHENTICATE after it is submitted. This crosschecking system will compare the similarity of the present paper with the millions of papers previously published and articles in the internet (usually by google), and provide a separate similarity index with one single paper and the total similarity index.
The checked result is displayed in two columns, the left column is the checked paper, the system use different colors to mark the similar contents, and right column is the list of the possibly plagiarized papers, which are listed in the order of similaritity index percentage.
The marked color in the checked paper is corresponding to the color of the possible plagiarized paper.
We usually set a similarity index for rejecting a paper. When the total similarity index is up to 40%, or the similarity index with one single paper reaches 20%, the manuscript will be directly rejected.
When the similarity has not reached the set level but is relatively high, we will read the whole paper and check which part is taken from othe papers. If the abstract or conclusion is almost the same with one single paper, we'll definitely reject it too. If most figures and tables are the same with one single paper or the key data are copied from one paper, we'll reject the paper too.
If only the introduction part or discussion part is taken from other papers, we'll require the authors to revise the paper, and suggest them organize these two parts in their own way and write them in their own words.
We start to use the iThenticate software from 2010. At first, we found that a relatively high proportion of papers plagiarized some paragraphs from other papers, and some even copied a large part of contents from others papers. Now high plagiarism rate can be rarely seen for this year's new submission.
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Universidad del Atlántico
Interestingly enough Dunlian Qiu I would reject papers with intros and conclusions that show traces of plagiarism no matter what.
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South Asian University
I have recently used the software Turnitin, I found it to be pretty good, except for the fact that in my domain area, legal studies, we do require a lot of citations for case comments. Turnitin has a few issues on that count, otherwise it is a pretty decent detector of plagiarism
University College Cork
We use TurnItIn software, very effective. The key is to teach students how to write first, give them the tools to do it right, then use the software as a check, not a stick.
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University of Mohaghegh Ardabili
I usually use the following link and I think it is very nice. You can try it!
You’ll see the plagiarized parts as marked in red. This tool will identify the original source of any unoriginal or plagiarized content that was copied from the internet and also published papers.
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University of the Witwatersrand
Raoof: Thanks. Papers not on the Web, last year's student term papers, and term papers from friends at other universities are not scanned. Like all plagiarism checkers, there is no built-in intelligence to reliably flag the subtle difference (to software) between a quote or paraphrase or idea that has been reproduced with the source being correctly cited, and missing or incorrect referencing.
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Universidad de Guanajuato
Mark put his finger on a key part of teaching students to write original essays and research reports. Elaborating on this, it is possible to set up situations where a student must do his own research. Years ago I settled on the formula of asking for only one paper at the end of the semester. Along the way I review the students' data, on note cards or digital supports, as well as their schematic outlines, making suggestions for improvement. Rigorous documentation in footnotes and a reference list are required for a passing grade.
In the end there are usually a few dishonest students who insist on using the "copy-paste" method, without quotation marks or citations. It's usually evident, and Google is enough to nail down the original or at least cognate sources. I experimented with some online plagiarism detectors with poor results, perhaps at least in part because my students write in Spanish. Many students use on-line scholarly report sharing sites (in Spanish there are two big ones: El Rincón del Vago -which translates as "The Lazy [Student's] Corner"- and Buenastareas.com -"Goodhomework.com"-). These sources are used so frequently that they often come up near the top of the results of a Google search. Some of the plagiarism checkers don't detect them.
Regarding Ian's mention of last year's papers, I insist on printed and digital versions and keep a file of the latter; this file can also be searched electronically. If two or more professors teach the same course, then a bit of collaboration is called for.
Getting students who are used to passing courses by plagiarizing to have the experience of writing an original paper can make a big difference in their lives, raising their self-esteem and in some cases setting them on a more honest path for the rest of their educational and professional lives. I have gotten feedback from graduates, years after taking my courses, that testifies to this.
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Universidad del Atlántico
In regards to plagiarism, I found this interesting note in the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/oct/30/highereducation.uk
Not only do we need to accuse students of mea culpa,feelings. Check it out.
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Universidad de Guanajuato
That's an interesting and well-reasoned article, José. Thanks for sharing it here. It's from 2007. Six years later it looks to me like we haven't made any progress in dealing with faculty plagiarism. I have spoken out on specific cases, only to find that some colleagues find whistle-blowing to be a worse crime than plagiarism, while others turn a blind eye to the problem to avoid making waves. When an institution has a double standard and students receive tougher penalties than professors for plagiarism, there is a grave ethical problem that needs to be addressed.
Here's a very good article in Spanish on plagiarism that I give to my students at the beginning of each semester, as part of the education process that I mentioned in my last post:
Manuel Becerra Ramírez, “El trabajo académico, plagio y derechos de autor”, en Dispraxis, Fernando Cano Valle, Alberto Campos Campos, Enrique Cáceres Nieto y Enrique Díaz-Aranda, coordinadores, México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012, pp. 147-171 (http://biblio.juridicas.unam.mx/libros/7/3071/10.pdf; acceso: 22 de julio de 2012).
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University of the Witwatersrand
A simple Google caused me to blow the whistle on a Head and Chair of the Department last year. He had doltishly cut and pasted his accepted paper together from heterogeneous bits on the Web.
I see he is still in that post.
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Universidad del Atlántico
Yikes Ian. It is sad and outrageous that things like that should happen in a serious academic context.
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University of the Witwatersrand
Are we to blame? I believe that we lecturers should now set the example by templating and reserving the bottom left corner of each PowerPoint slide to include the author and date of our source. For chalk-and-talk, a verbal reference should suffice.
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Universidad de Guanajuato
You're right, Ian. A PowerPoint format is no excuse for plagiarism, including images, which are just as much intellectual property as words. I like putting a subtle vertical strip on one side of the image, with the author's last name and year. Quotes should have the source under them, of course. In the end I flash the bibliography at the audience, more for the purpose of showing due respect for intellectual property than anything else. It is essential that we set a good example.
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Naresuan University
To check plagiarism effectively you need two approaches: (1) Web based (Google does make the difference), and (2) a deep insight into the body of knowledge of the text under consideration plus the most cited literature. Caveats: approach (1) does not work well in such cases as paraphrased texts; approach (2) consumes a lot of your resources relating time and cognition.
So, my answer to the question stated in your last paragraph is 'no'.
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Northumbria University
When I was teaching undergrads, when they copied and pasted usually two things would stick out; the flow of the information they would be giving and also the formatting will change. However, now there are a number of software you can use for that. I guess some other people have discussed on that. In one class I took, the work was submitted straight to an online plagiarism checker.
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Loreto College Calcutta
There may be software, there may be honest effort but plagiarism is something which needs a transparent approach. I am a green horn who has a lot to learn but I try to work honestly in my research outputs. However, in India I find plagiarism is taken quite lightly and persons brag about papers where they have plagiarized liberally. This happens because in a number of cases no proper action is taken. An effective anti plagiarism policy is needed and researchers need to be made aware of different facets of plagiarism before it is too late for them.
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Northumbria University
I am also a green horn like you Soumya, the best advise I ever got on plagiarism was, "If you will need, a plagiarism software to check whether you plagiarized, then you probably did plagiarize." This helped me to write my own stuff, paraphrase and quote. I quote liberally, It's better to receive a complaint that you had too many references than that you plagiarized.
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Loreto College Calcutta
Edmond that is a healthy way of looking at research as per my standards. And that was a good advice.
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Naresuan University
@Soumya, in Germany (my home country) people lose their PhD, MD etc. quite easily, if plagiarism could be verified. There are a number of German language Web sites gathering evidence in questionable cases. Recently, two ministers of the federal cabinet have been forced to resign because of unethical behaviour, i.e. plagiarism in their academic work.
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Loreto College Calcutta
Michael that is the difference between your country and mine. The approach taken in your country is the right one but in India I see academicians openly engaging in plagiarism and walking free by using their political clout or other means. The worst part of this process is that young talents grow up knowing that plagiarism is something which is trivial and can be practiced liberally.
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Umxhumanisi Engineering
There is some good advice in the above comments. In combination there are software- and online checkers for plagiarism.
You can try these and similar software and sites to help identify plagiarism. If identical texts are found, to verify that it is not a quote, with a refference to the author.
etc
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WBS Coding School
Dear Sir, kindly go through "Plagiarism detector".
We generally use this software, to check for any plagiarism, before submitting our work to our supervisor.
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What I personally feel is that:
1. It is very difficult to detect plagiarism. No doubt there are lots of software, but they can only detect plagiarism if and only if the materials are copied from Internet/ Materials are available online.
Hence the plagiarism detection software helps to a great extent.
2. It is really painful that most of the time researchers under pressure use to do it.....
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We have to be aware that some of these techniques are free.
How to protect your confidential idea? By uploading your paper via browser, you share your paper with untrusted site. I am not going to defy these detector, but there is some spy behind these procedure. In our University, we are using Turnitin with user and pass.
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Yeungnam University
I tried many software for the purpose, but the one i really like the most is smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
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Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Is there any software to stop a professor who provide his own thesis to his scholar(s) for certain amount of money saying "just change these-these figures and I will get your Ph.D. awarded". and after a few year four doctoral thesis were awarded right from his own thesis under his guidence.
University of the Witwatersrand
@Darasingh: The software is called "E-Mail". You just use it to send a whistle-blowing message to the professor's superior, or higher up the chain of authority. Do it now.
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My experience with free plagiarism detection software is not satisfactory....
The free plagiarism detection software has lots of limitations...
Hence it is better to go for licensed one....
Sir "Ian Kennedy "
What is the website where we can get the software "E-Mail". I want to use it earliest..
Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board, Jaipur, Rajasthan
@Ian sir, I did that already, and thanks to that "E-Mail" I had to quit my doctoral thesis work in the middle (after 2 years of registration) and now I am looking for start it all over again at some other institute.
University of the Witwatersrand
@Ganesh; try http://mail.google.com
I use it.
University of the Witwatersrand
@Darasingh: At least you can look at your face in a mirror for having done the honourable thing.
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We use TURNITIN where students upload their text files and they are checked against all on-line works. Accepting that their are limitations with these software programs you can always discourage plagiarism by telling students that TURNITIN is used every year across the board and it is very successful. Their choice is to believe you or test the system. In student essay/projects a sudden change in style, phraseology, vocabulary, format, referencing etc is suspicious and invariably indicates plagiarism (see Vladimir's comments)
Annamalai University
Viber free plagiarism tool can also be used. It is free of cost but it's good. It is alternative to turn it in.
Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale Campus
Viber is decent, the others are simply paste and text. I recently needed to check students papers .doc/.docx format as well as PDF and Power Point (PPT). This is a great solution and gives you unlimited scans https://www.writemypaper.net/free-plagiarism-checker-for-students-online/
Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology
for online you can check small SEO tools
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University of Diyala
The Turnitin and Viper widely used for checking plagiarism in papers, Thesis.
Good Luck
The professors have access to turnitine. It is an alluring software to detect plagarism. Take help from them.
Banaras Hindu University
Dear Dr. Gajendra Pal Singh Sir,
Please have a look at these useful ResearchGate links.
Good luck!
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Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia Cervello
I would usu plagium.com. You can also read this paper http://jpma.org.pk/PdfDownload/7088.pdf
Sona College of Arts and Science
Dear all,
I have one clarification, regarding plagiarism checker. I checked the similarity using any one of the plagiarism tool for example, viper and get 15% similarity. After that, I have to check the same paper/content in another tool for example, urkund. What is the similarity of the content? Is it 15% or 100%. My clarification is the plagiarism tool check the similarity with web content or articles or plagiarism tool database.
Thank you.
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King Khalid University
There are no free plagiarism applications. Free online sites are not accurate.
Green University of Bangladesh
There are many plagiarism software available right now. You can also check plagiarism in online, but online plagiarism is not authentic. Online plagiarism checking has some limitations.
Plagiarism Checker X desktop application is good enough to check plagiarism.
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Ambo University
Turnition is the best tool for plagiarism checking.use this link to check your paper. http://turnitinuk.com.cn. Thanks
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Deleted research item The research item mentioned here has been deleted
In addition: this work has been checked for plagiarims in the following system:
The system claimed "The first and best Russian system for detecting text reuse". The result "more than 75 % own text and our numerous article as well as monograph has not beed detected.
This fact has been widely used by Sultanov L.U. with his appellation - this is my own research!
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
This plagiarism has been found manually by the authors:
Deleted research item The research item mentioned here has been deleted
In addition: this "research" thesis
has been checked for plagiarims in the following system:
The system claimed to be
"The first and best Russian system for detecting text reuse".
The result is "more than 75 % own text and our numerous article as well as monograph have not beed detected.
This fact has been widely used by Sultanov L.U. with his appellation - this is my own research!
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British University in Dubai
Turnitin is the best. However, try these checkers, it may be useful;
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Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust
Dear Gajendra,
Here are some blog articles that you might find useful.
Following blog provides a review of all plagiarism checking tools.
Following blog explains how you can check for self-plagiarism while writing using REF-N-WRITE Tool.
Hope this helps.
Lappeenranta – Lahti University of Technology LUT
Dear Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava,
If you really want something which is world class, please take a look to Turnitin
It is used by many top of the line Universities and academic units and is a tool which people cannot fool.
Most universities and applied sciences units and so on have access to it.
B.R.,
Ari
Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences
Please check this link:
https://www.plagius.com/en
University of Sunderland
Turnitin works perfectly but try this alternative tool that works just like turnitin. https://paraphrase.projecttopics.org/free-plagiarism-checker-turnitin-alternative-software
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
I think turnitin works perfectly , if you could get account from your university. otherwise you should write all the copied sentences in your own words.
sometimes I use this website. good but not like turnitin.
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Rheology Group | GReo
I have used Grammarly and I recommend it, we pay it among four colleagues and it is used without problem.
University of Galway
You can use turnitin.com . Great results for checking plagiarism.
Panjab University
Grammarly is not a good option as it doesn't work accurately. So, Sir you must not rely on this and most of freely available softwares.
Thank You
University of Technology Mauritius
Turnitin is really very helpful but you need a paid subscription. However, even with Turnitin, remember to look into the similarity ratio. For example, it would make sense to exclude bibliography in the similarity as well as short matches. This can change the similarity ratio. Also it is important to check inside the matches to see if there has been too much "inspiration" from one source. Usually this has to be 1% maximum. I have also been told of students trying to beat the software by adding words invisible to the naked eye but visible to the software (the software does not detect colour) and which can reduce similarity drastically. So be careful with similarity ratios which are suspiciously low.
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Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
I wonder can African countries benefit from the "TurnItIn" plagiarism analysis software or any other similar software that offers better results?
HighLake IT Solutions
Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava sir
Free softwares are not giving accurate similarity index . turnitin/ Ithenticate both are best options.
The description of popular similarity checking softwares are given below.
Urkund is a web-based application that conducts server-side plagiarism detection. The solution to detect plagiarism is integrated and automated. This is a paid service that utilizes a standard email program to upload documentation and display information. This program handles 300 separate types of submissions and checks all accessible online sources. The educational sources of documents are given more priority while searching.UGC provides this software to universities of india for similarity checking.
Ithenticate for any text document is an effective tool for web-based plagiarism detection. Installation on a client computer is not necessary. Input materials are comparable with the references accessible on the site in this case. Many well-known journal publishers utilize this well-known method. It is a professional fast plagiarism checker that is easy to use. This is meant for institutional use instead of personal use, but essentially this offers a restricting feature for consumers of the specific identification of plagiarism, such as students of master and doctoral education. this allows them to check a document of up to 25,000 words.
Turnitin is a successful web-based tool. Detection and reporting is done remotely in this method. 15,000 universities and 30 Million students have now approved Turnitin because of its user-friendly design, broad repository help, robust plagiarism tests and structured report production. It can be seen as one of the best plagiarism checker.
There is no software which check plagiarism only similarity level can be checked.
Arun kumar sharma
University of Lincoln
Gajendra, turnitin has been found to be useful in highlighting aspects, scale and potential sources of plagiarism. Others tend to insert parts of a text into Google if they suspect plagiarism to ascertain whether this is the case or not.
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
I think using Turnitin will be the best solution. I advise you not to use Plagiarism Checker X if you do not have a software license.
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