Hi! Most universities that I know recommend the use of Turnitin for checking plagiarism. I have so far used it to check for level of plagiarism for my proposal defense.
I have worked with the iAuthenticate software, but not as an author. There are some nuances to it, and I think it depends on what your purposes are. I know that iAuthenticate is used by publishers submitting with CrossRef for D.O.I.s [Digital Object Identifiers] on scientific articles. Please let me know if I can help you with anything else, I have included the link below.
Viper Anti-Plagiarism Scanner hxxp://www.scanmyessay.com/ *. Ithenticate is not free, but the best one available, as it also scans many scholarly content not available freely on the internet (like that of Sage, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley-Blackwell & EBSCO).
I should also mention that i would never use Turnitin as an individual researcher for scanning my unpublished papers, or as an editor for scanning submitted manuscripts. That's because, as i heard, every paper you scan with this program will become part of the Turnitin database.
* edit 28/05/2014: looks like I made a mistake by recommending Viper. You should accept with the ToS that they will "automatically upload your essay to our student essays database which will appear on one of our network of websites" after 9 months - these sites may be essay mills/paper mills so no one should use this service unless one accepts (and have the rights to accept!) that this will happen to their scanned papers. Also check this link: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2013/11/18/viper-plagiarism-scanner-stealing-essays/
You can use the Viper, which is free, or the iThenticate, which is used form a fee, and is much better than the Viper. No matter which plagiarism program you take, pls use the result with a grain of salt. How big the grain is you will discover when you start using the plagiarism software products.
In case you want to try free web-based services, you may want to try Plagium http://www.plagium.com/ or The Plagiarism Checker http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/index.pl
I have used both and I can say that though they are rather limited, as free services they are pretty useful
I understand that you wish to check your own manuscript for plagiarism before submitting. Before suggesting software, may I respectfully suggest that the best way is within you ! Start with an empty sheet of paper and start writing.
A number of solutions exist, each with their merits and demerits. For example if you are creating numerous drafts, then Turnitin ( http://turnitin.com/) used repeatedly will record self plagiarism. Try paperrater http://www.paperrater.com/), eTblast ( http://etest.vbi.vt.edu/etblast3/) or ithenticate (http://www.ithenticate.com/ ).
I never heard about plagiat of the published paper 1 : 1 without reference. What some low moral authors really do is publishing a paper, where main results of another author's paper are reproduced in the first part of their paper. They even provide the valid reference. Then, in a year or so, they follow their published paper with another, where results of original author's paper are still havily used, but the reference is absent. They reference their own paper instead. After repeting this procedure several times they shine as the original authors of the results, which don't belong to them.
I have created a plagiarism detection tool called DOC Cop that is ideal for detecting plagiarism in journals. DOC Cop does not retain material submitted, please try: http://www.doccop.com
I think, although not entirely sure, most use crosscheck. Recently though I have noted few journals using plagiarism-detector. I have heard that the use of Turnitin should be followed with care.
Turnitin don't save all your submitted data in main database but also give option that either u want to make your research a part of database or u just want to find plagiarism value of your paper.
You can use Turnitin or iThenticate as engines to solve plagiarism challenge. Remember nothing is free you will pay for it because you pay for the licence to use the software.
Turn It In software works, but I've found a quicker and easier way. If a student's paper sounds too good to be true, take a sentence or two and google-search. The source of the plagiarism usually pops right up.
I took a look at DOC Cop and was surprised to find after I registered that it asked me for money before I could use it. If you are offering a commercial service you should make that clear up front.
Something to be aware of it you use Turnitin is the default is adding each checked paper to the repository. If the paper is rejected and submitted elsewhere the author could be accused of plagiarism. This is a problem particularly if your journal has anonymous submission, since the paper will be picked up without the author name. I have also heard of a case where a PhD student’s paper landed up in the Turnitin repository and the student subsequently was accused of plagiarism when the submitted thesis was checked.
For these reasons, when I check a paper submitted to my journal, I turn off the feature of adding it to the repository. Once it is published, Turnitin ought to pick it up as a published paper but before it is published, on balance, it is better if it is not in the repository – if the paper is not published, the chance of someone else picking it up and copying it is remote.
I have also used the google search trick. A thing that usually jumps out is local consistency, global inconsistency. It reads very well in patches, but not throughout.
Hi Philip, The File Check feature of DOC Cop is free. I charge a nominal fee for the use of Web Check in order to cover costs associated with programmatic access to the Web. Thanks for having a look at my system, which does not have the problem mentioned above because it does not retain material. Mark
I agree with Janos -- you definitely do not want your paper to be stored in a database. You also want unlimited plagiarism scans for free. A good recommendation is https://www.writemypaper.net/free-plagiarism-checker-for-students-online/ and it supports PDF's, .doc/.docx and power point (PPT) uploads.
Can you reenter the same document into one soft ware without running the risk of plagiarism on your own work or the student,s work previously assessed.
plz any one could tell me is journal of physiology and pharmacology www.jpp.krakow.pl use a plagiarim program though they do not mention on their home page and send to me the prove for this
Being clear that a plagiarism software is only complementary to an intelligent review, at our University Turnitin is the software used (https://turnitin.com)
At my university we are compelled to use iThenticate program for all our articles ad students Turnitin. iThenticate gives you a much valuable breakdown of words used from other scholars work.
I think it will be appropriate to find out the popularly acceptable software based on the following : easy (time) of getting the job done, the quality of job done, the summary or analysis after the process (i.e information given), the respect given to your unpublished work you are probably trying to give a better edge without infringing the ethics of scholarly publication, the flexibility and adaptability to the peculiarity of your area of studies and vocabularies involved and the limit of words to handle per time (word count) . Turnitin and iThenticate are common and there are some other online services like Grammarly, Dupli Checker etc. however their limitations and strengths must be studied before selection.
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It is compulsory for my journal, African Journal of Pedagogy and Curriculum and my university to be registered to check for similarity, in this case, it is iThenticate report. We are using iThenticate for academics and students use Turnitin.
It is important for each academic work to be submitted for check-up under iThenticate. We also influence our students to submit their academic into Turitin.
My institution uses Turnitin but I recently purchased PlagiarismCheckerX from http://plagiarismcheckerx.com. I quite like this as it rates the text with a percentage rating and colour coding, also a report at the end gives advice as well as a list of the locations it has found your material on.
Personally, I experienced all these plagiarism tools as a means to support academics and students to advance the quality of scholarly work before publication. There is both sides of the coin. In my view, all plagiarism tracking software is used as a developmental nature and not as judgmental.
Turnitin and iThenticate are essentially the same thing with different settings. Turnitin is designed for checking student work so it adds whatever it checks to its database (e.g. to catch students copying from each other). iThenticate is configured for checking material intended to be published (e.g. by journals) and should not save that material in its DB since it’s not yet published.
I edit a small journal that can’t justify the cost of iThenticate so I use Turnitin but turn off saving in the DB as the paper I am checking could be rejected or withdrawn so it should not be put in the database of student papers.
At The University of Burdwan (India)we use software recommended by University Grants Commission.I once got my recent project report checked.I always recommend to my research scholars to check their material for plagiarism before submitting to the university and give a declaration to that effect.
I agree with you: the Grammarly plagiarism checker is very good as it checks several million pages of various texts. It is always good to know that your text is an original. On the other hand, if some similitude to published texts does exist, it is easily corrected by changing a few words or changing the sentence structure. In either case, you are covered.
I checked almost all the plagiarism tools before answer this question. I check a document with Turnitin, then with grammarly (https://preparmy.com/recommends/grammarly ) and then with prowriting Aid.
Turnitin is checked and show similarity reports from Internet sources, Publications, and Their own database as well. Number of text many other factor responsible for their higher similarity report.
Grammarly (https://preparmy.com/recommends/grammarly )is also showing Internet source, Publications as well. But their plagiarism percentage is lower because if we add one or two text between any sentence then grammarly not consider it as plagiarised.
ProwritinAid. It show lowest because it only checked through the Internet Source not all the source like publications and others.
Other tools like Plagscan
These all the tools are using Grammarly Ghost api to check the plagiarsim they are not good to use according to my perspective. They also have some limit on number of words to check.