(Webinar) 11 August 2016 11:00 (SAST) Mr. Shivendra Naidoo Ms. Cheryl Mansell

1. © 2016 Turnitin LLC
Safeguarding
Research in
South Africa:
iThenticate and
Crossref Similarity
Check
Mr. Shivendra Naidoo
Ms. Cheryl Mansell

2. 1. Some of the challenges facing Scientific Research / Publishing
2. Why should we worry about Plagiarism / Unoriginal Research?
3. What is iThenticate and what are the benefits of using it?
4. Who currently uses iThenticate?
5. What is the difference between iThenticate and Crossref Similarity
Check (CSC)?
6. What do some of our CSC Admin Users think of the service?
7. Implementing Crossref Similarity Check
8. Questions & Answers
Agenda

3. Challenges facing Scientific
Research / Publishing

4. § Distributing Grants/Funding for Research
§ Encouraging good academic practice among authors
§ Identifying serious cases of academic misconduct:
…
Challenges facing Scientific Research / Publishing
o Plagiarism
o Fabrication/Falsification
o Ghost writing/Selling authorship

5. § Protecting research outputs/intellectual property after publication
§ Improving editorial standards & workflows
§ Increasing citations & improving journal rankings/prestige
Challenges facing Scientific Research / Publishing

6. A study published in the South African Journal of Science…
Plagiarism in South African Management Journals
(Thomas & de Bruin, 2015)
Challenges facing Scientific Research / Publishing

7. A study published in the South African Journal of Science…
Plagiarism in South African Management Journals
(Thomas & de Bruin, 2015)
• Looked at 371 journal articles published across 19 journals in 2011
• Found that 68% of the articles contained plagiarism, while 21%
contained “Excessive” levels of plagiarism
• Estimated this cost the SA government R7million in wasted funding
Challenges facing Scientific Research / Publishing

8. Why worry about
plagiarism/unoriginal research?

9. § Grants/Funding are a finite resource
§ Poor academic practice can lead to poor quality research
§ Poor research/misconduct can impact on reputations & rankings
Why worry about plagiarism/unoriginal research?

10. What is iThenticate?

11. The international standard for ensuring
the originality of academic writing.
What is iThenticate?
From PhD level, through to publication…and beyond!

12. What is iThenticate?

13. The iThenticate Database Includes:
Preventing Plagiarism in Published Works
89%
of the top 100
impact factor journals1
81%
of the top 500
impact factor journals1
78%
of the top 5,000
impact factor journals1
60B+ webpages 50M+ journal articles 150M+ publications

15. Current iThenticate Users

16. Trusted by Leading Research Institutions
Promoting Institutional Integrity
Relied upon by Government and Grant Funding Agencies

17. Indispensable to more than 800 Academic Publishers
Preventing Plagiarism in Published Works

18. What is Crossref Similarity Check?

19. § A bespoke version of iThenticate for Crossref members only
§ Very little difference in the software / User Interface itself
§ CSC participants agree to show full-text sources to each other
§ Bespoke pricing model compared to standard iThenticate
What is Crossref Similarity Check?

20. § A bespoke version of iThenticate for Crossref members only
§ Very little difference in the software / User Interface itself
§ CSC participants agree to show full-text sources to each other
§ Bespoke pricing model compared to standard iThenticate
§ Requires CSC participants to deposit at least 90% of their
DOI-assigned content in the iThenticate database
What is Crossref Similarity Check?

21. Feedback from our Similarity Check Users

22. § 87% of respondents had been using CSC for >1 year
§ Majority of respondents used CSC on a daily/weekly basis
§ 52% review every report generated, while 37% only reviewed
reports when the score exceeded a certain threshold percentage
§ 82% of respondents informed authors that their work will be checked
with CSC, while the rest did not
Feedback from our Similarity Check Users

23. § 92% found that CSC helped them identify plagiarism cases
§ 37% of respondents saw a noticeable reduction in the number
of cases of potential plagiarism each year
§ 88% of respondents were ‘satisfied’, ‘very satisfied’ or
‘extremely satisfied’ with the CSC service overall
Feedback from our Similarity Check Users

24. Implementing Crossref Similarity Check

25. § Editorial Policy – publicising use of the service
§ Who runs the checks?
§ When to check papers?
§ Use via an MTS (e.g. ScholarOne, OJS etc.) or native UI?
§ When to review reports?
§ What exclusion settings to use?
§ How to interpret the reports?
§ When to take action?
Implementing Crossref Similarity Check

26. Some useful resources:
• https://www.elsevier.com/editors/publishing-ethics/perk/plagiarism-
complaints/plagiarism-detection
• https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/plagiarism-prevention-
with-crosscheck/1214
• http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ethics-for-authors/
• http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/
crosscheckmain.html
• http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/ethics/index.html
Implementing Crossref Similarity Check

27. Preventing Plagiarism in Published Works

28. Thank You