Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Plagiarism detection is the process of locating instances of plagiarism within a work or document. The widespread use of computers and the advent of the Internet has made it easier to plagiarize the work of others. Most cases of plagiarism are found in academia, where documents are typically essays or reports. However, plagiarism can be found in virtually any field, including scientific papers, art designs, and source code.

Detection of plagiarism can be either manual or software-assisted. Manual detection requires substantial effort and excellent memory, and is impractical in cases where too many documents must be compared, or original documents are not available for comparison. Software-assisted detection allows vast collections of documents to be compared to each other, making successful detection much more likely.

The practice of plagiarizing by use of sufficient word substitutions to elude detention software is known as rogeting.

please, see the attached links, where similar threads were asked in RG  and  you could get further information from their answers there.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_software_is_used_to_check_for_plagiarism_in_journal_publishing

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_check_plagiarism

I find that Viper is really useful.  It highlights the similar sections while searching the web.  I get to know the similarity index, and which parts need a citation.  I am concerned that I don't plagiarize others, and don't plagiarize myself because I have several studies on music mnemonics in teaching biological processes.  But citing my previous work is fine.  I AIM AT LESS THAN 30% SIMILARITY INDEX, BUT I HAVE PAPERS ARE AT 1%, 3%, 20%.  So I just think of Viper as a friendly tool, as useful as a spelling checker.  Besides, it's 'free'.

http://www.scanmyessay.com/

Of course I understand the sense of que the question. The real issue however is not whether is using for writing a thesis, but, rather, whether it is useful for checking up whether a thesis is original or not. And that is quite a different matter.

My answer, therefore, is yes. It is extremely useful to find plagiarism of those students that are writing a thesis.

Any tool, which curtails or fights plagiarism, is useful in my view. In fact, I wish for more efficient software tools that eradicate dishonesty in research publications. By now, many RG colleagues know that research papers are not always genuine even if they are published in journals (that were made famous).

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Plagiarism detection is the process of locating instances of plagiarism within a work or document. The widespread use of computers and the advent of the Internet has made it easier to plagiarize the work of others. Most cases of plagiarism are found in academia, where documents are typically essays or reports. However, plagiarism can be found in virtually any field, including scientific papers, art designs, and source code.

Detection of plagiarism can be either manual or software-assisted. Manual detection requires substantial effort and excellent memory, and is impractical in cases where too many documents must be compared, or original documents are not available for comparison. Software-assisted detection allows vast collections of documents to be compared to each other, making successful detection much more likely.

The practice of plagiarizing by use of sufficient word substitutions to elude detention software is known as rogeting.

please, see the attached links, where similar threads were asked in RG  and  you could get further information from their answers there.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_software_is_used_to_check_for_plagiarism_in_journal_publishing

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_check_plagiarism

Plagiarism detection tools are just machines and they can make mistakes. However, that is true with any tool as, for example, you don’t discard Microsoft Word because you can make a typo.

If used correctly, a plagiarism detection service will alert someone to the possibility of plagiarism, not to its actual existence.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/12/07/the-limitation-of-every-plagiarism-checker/

Thnxs to all

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb."

                                                      --------    Miroslav Volf

Broadly it helps researcher to avoid or control copying.