My paper got accepted for a conference. Before submitting the paper, I used Turntin to check for any similarity and found only 6%. But after the conference reviewed my paper and sent it to me, I again checked for similarity (as I made some changes) and found that it was 95% similar! 90% of those come from a student paper at a Texas university. Why is that? I have to submit the final version tomorrow. Is this going to be any problem?
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4Does this answer your question? What is the acceptable similarity in a mathematics PhD dissertation when checking by Turnitin?– Anonymous PhysicistCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 1:54
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1In particular, as the answers to academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29723/… say: Do not use Turnitin for anything important.– Anonymous PhysicistCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 1:55
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1This is a good answer: academia.stackexchange.com/a/185810/13240– Anonymous PhysicistCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 1:57
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1Did you get to see the student paper ? How much similarity between your paper and the student's paper after you read that paper yourself (not by Turntin) ? What was the publish date of the student's paper ?– NobodyCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 8:46
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If you didn't plagiarize, you can submit the final version of the paper which was accepted. Why not ?– NobodyCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 9:51
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I don't see how any of us can say. Maybe you stole it from a student at a Texas university. Maybe they stole it from you. Maybe a glitch. Maybe the conference will use a plagiarism checker like the one you used, maybe not.
You should never need to check anything you've written yourself on a plagiarism checker, because if you wrote it yourself you don't need to check it for plagiarism: it isn't plagiarized if you didn't plagiarize it, regardless of what a computer comparison says. Focus on not plagiarizing, rather than focusing on making sure you can evade the detection system; evading the system of checks is something for guilty people to do, not honest ones.
In some cases, sending a copy of your work to a plagiarism detector may result in it showing up as plagiarism later, because the plagiarism software works by making comparisons to previous submissions.
answered Nov 20, 2023 at 1:19
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I didn't check it myself. My teacher did. He is the co-author, and the reason I am checking now is because I added a lot of references as per the review from the conference, so I checked if they were getting caught as references or plagiarism. The similarity didn't exist before. It was after i submitted to the conference that its showing 95%– raf rafCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 1:42
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3@rafraf That's not what you wrote in your post. I guess your advisor doesn't trust you? There is no reason to check if references are "getting caught as plagiarism" in your own work, unless perhaps someone is accusing you of plagiarism already based on a report like this and you're trying to refute it.– Bryan Krause ♦Commented Nov 20, 2023 at 1:48
There's a plethora of reasons this could have happened but, assuming the conference did not make any mistakes in the paper that was checked and who it was reported to. It may be that turnitin added your paper to their database after you submitted it and afterwards when the conference went to scan your paper turnitin recognized your paper as previously submitted. I would bring this up to the conference and try to show them as much documentation you can (i.e. timestamps on browser history, any editing history assuming your text editor supports this).
