Questions tagged [plagiarism-checker]
This tag is for software (and other) solutions that allow to check a text or a submission to a journal/conference for instances of plagiarism. The tag is also for questions on the ethics and concerns when using such solutions as well as other issues related to the use of plagiarism-checkers. For questions that are about plagiarism in general, please use the tag "plagiarism" instead.
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Which free online academic plagiarism checker is closest to Turnitin?
Which free online academic plagiarism checker is closest to Turnitin by quality standard of rigour?
Turnitin features that even somebody plagiarize the context of a passage by use synonyms or simply ...
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Potential issues with uploading copyrighted material to TurnItIn?
My university uses TurnItIn to check student's work for plagiarism and collusion. I think the underlying TurnItIn database includes both submitted work and material it has found by crawling the web, ...
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What is the acceptable similarity in a mathematics PhD dissertation when checking by Turnitin?
I have checked the originality of my PhD thesis in mathematics using Turnitin. The similarity was 31%. Is this percentage acceptable by most committees?
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Plagiarism-checker to prevent self-plagiarism
I am working on my PhD thesis and have to write a monograph based on my publications. To prevent that I plagiarize myself, I came up with the idea to automatically check my thesis against my ...
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