He writes and I quote:
One of us (Steve) is the editor of the research journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. He uses Cross Check to examine every one of the 2,000 annual submissions he receives! And he finds that around one out of every 10 submissions is at least partly plagiarized.
He has also recommended a free program in his blog called DOC COP (www.doccop.com)
He writes and I quote:
Doc Cop -- D-O-C C-O-P -- chops the text into pieces, and uses Google to search the Internet for matching text.
Since many papers have multiple authors, the only way for the guarantor author to know that the final paper does not contain plagiarized text is to run it through a program like Doc Cop prior to submission.
Thanks Stephen.
Many of you may know this but I didn't till today.
It is tedious to check for plagiarism with this, but for those using this tool to find the exact reference for an article or sentence this is useful:
If you pick a sentence that sounds familiar, you can search Google for it in quotes -
For example "Recently Pneumococcal vaccines have generated considerable interest in developing countries as an intervention for protecting children from pneumonia and thereby reducing childhood mortality." - It will look for and find where the exact phrase occurs.
Also google scholar searches a different data set than regular Google, so it's worth searching both separately.
Jacob Puliyel
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Stephen Perle, DC, MS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Not for free but the market leader in this is Turnitin
http://turnitin.com/static/home.html
Their database of items to compare against is enormous. I’ve submitted student papers and they have found even a single sentence lifted from a student paper at another university. Likewise they have found chunks copied from published papers without attribution.
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On 7 Feb 2011, at 07:39, Puliyel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All
> I have been sent an article for peer review where I think large chunks have been cut and pasted from elsewhere, without acknowledging the original authors. I however cannot remember where I have read the articles before, and so I cannot verify if my suspicion is correct.
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> Does anyone know any software (free software if possible) that allows one to check for such things.
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> One way is to 'Google search' for an operative sentence but the numerous hits make it tiresome.
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> Any suggestions welcome.
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> Warm regards
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> Jacob Puliyel
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