I have already completed a review article but I am confused about the authenticity of this article. This paper already get rejected from journals for plagiarism. If anyone can help or suggest anything, It will be very kind of you.
Dear Chris Gueymard thank you so much sir, I have already submitted one of my research article at a springer journal, they suggested me to rewrite the paper and try to keep the plagiarism percentage below 12%. Thank you again for your valuable suggestion, this will help me much.
The percentage is kind of meaningless and arbitrary and must be on a case by case basis of the text in question. If you have a lot of fixed terms that always feature in papers on the same topic, it will naturally have a higher percentage.
Consider the screenshot I have just uploaded. This highlighted text in red is responsible for 2% of this paper's 20% Ithenticate similarity score. Obviously this is discounted as "be divided into the following X steps" is just a common use of language.
Going through ever instance of similarity on a seemingly high score of 20%, you easily see that there is no concern of plagiarism.
The second instance, on the otherhand, is clearly plagiarism (of the authors previous work, which still counts as plagiarism!). Whilst this seems harsh, one must simply paraphrase or try entirely restate the form. If, as is the case in this example, the author wishes to use an identical table, simply cite the table in the other work.
Jamie Matthew Bright Matthew Bright, I think if you break up the overall percentage, and look at some individual phrases or sentences. indeed they could be argued as “commonly used.” When you have 20 of those “commonly used phrases/sentences” coming from the same reference, it’s plagerism to me. In general, I desk-reject anything beyond 20%.