My two manuscripts have passed plagirism test, but what I noticed is that their plagiarism checkers detect short phrases like "at room temperature in a dessicator", "the percentage was calculated using the formula", etc. as plagiarised text. I believe true plagiarism should concern whole statements or sentences, and not fragmentary phrases. Because phrases such are these are easily conceived and difficult to paraphrase as they are common in literature. Otherwise no article will be free from plagiarised text.
I think you might be using some free plagiarism checking tool. Go a bit ahead ... Get Viper or some other professional software. The background code of a plagiarism detector should run across phrases and contexts on the basis of semantics rather than similarities. If that is not the case, even common phrases or sentence-portions are being caught red, then it's sure that the background code is not comprehensive.
@ Arghya Ray. The plagiarism check was done by the journals using their standard softwares. In different occasion I myself have used Plagirism Checker X, and it gave similar results, phrases highlighted as similar. In fact no sentence was detected as similar but the total similarity was ~20%. I think programme developers do not understand this.
Yes, I agree that "the % error has been estimated" or "was stored at room temperature" can never be plagiarism. These short phrases will always be in anyone's manuscript, but it cannot be said that it is plagiarism. Whole statement may be considered or at some cases short phrases (but not like above mentioned) are also considered for plagiarism.
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