I've heard of automated plagiarism systems provided by many journals nowadays picking up on similar content in published abstracts from conferences etc. and since these automated systems are a pre-requites to editors sending manuscripts for review, they are sometimes rejected outright until the text has changed to something unique (even if its the work of the author themselves describing the manuscript content at a conference)
Has anyone run into these issues with pre-prints, where automated plagiarism systems show a 100% match with the current manuscript submission of the pre-print, and the editor refuses to acknowledge it?
Russell Gray: For the coming future, do not upload any paper anywhere until it is published with your name. Even if it is a preprint! We should write that with gold-water.
For the current paper, delete the preprint and wait for two months and resend the same article to another journal.
My very first paper had about 25%. I was actually quoting authors with their own words and I was told to rephrase. Simply because I did not know. They never prohibited to resubmit and the paper was published with them. 100% that is very bad. I am not sure what tools they used but simply rephrase everything then resubmit. Even if it is to another journal.
I'm talking specifically about pre-prints, not just general matches with language in a manuscript. A pre-print of a manuscript would typically be 90-100% match to the submitted paper, because most of the time it is the submitted paper.
I was suffered in 2010 because of the automated plagiarism detectors that are strictly implemented in the online university, which I used the old school type in doing research assignments. I got 20% to 30% and asked me to repeat it again to make at least a 0% to 10% limit. However, I learned a lot from that kind of system and become my practice because that will affects my grade if you do not change your attitude every time you do your write-ups towards the process. Thanks to them.
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