This report can be exported and provides an overall similarity score, the percentage of the user’s document that matches text from the library of published materials. Finally, iThenticate generates an interactive report to highlight the text from the user’s document that match text from outside published texts.
Then, iThenticate compares all text in that document to the text from an extensive and continually updated library of published materials and websites. First, iThenticate users upload a document into their private cloud-based iThenticate accounts. The process for using iThenticate is simple and relatively fast, taking only about 5-15 min to scan each document. Using iThenticate can serve as both a teaching tool and a preventative measure to help ensure research manuscripts, grant applications, and scholarly documents have the appropriate citations and references of previously published work before submission to journals, funding agencies, and academic repositories. In 2012, the National Science Foundation (NSF) scanned all NSF grants funded in 2011 for plagiarism and found that up to 1.5% of the ~8000 awards required further investigation.ĭuke University has chosen iThenticate as the anti-plagiarism tool for the Duke research community to enable early detection of possible plagiarism before works are disseminated. Similarly, federal funding agencies are also carrying out periodic scans of incoming grant proposals for plagiarism. Wiley, Elsevier, and Nature Publishing Group have subscriptions to iThenticate, a plagiarism detection system and several of Elsevier’s journals run all received submissions through a plagiarism detection system. Journal editors often scan manuscripts for plagiarism, and may retract a published paper or reconsider manuscript acceptance if plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected. Self-plagiarism, re-using one’s own text with the intent of publishing old content as if it were new, original work without proper citation of the original source, is not research misconduct, but is an inappropriate practice. Research Quality Management Program (RQMP)Ī complaint of plagiarism, defined as the use of other people’s ideas, results, or words without proper acknowledgement, can lead to a research misconduct investigation, potential loss of funding, article retraction, and sanctions.Clinical Quality Management Program (CQMP).Requirements for Public Disclosure of Potential COI in Research.Responsible Conduct of Research Programs.iThenticate: A New Anti-Plagiarism Resource Available to Duke Researchers.