iThenticate was created by iParadigms. They provide cloud-based educational technologies to prevent plagiarism, content verifications, and written work evaluation.
- Professional tool that provides similarity reports and an overall similarity index for each submission.
- Is recommended for publishers and research institutions
- Supports patrons to identify similarities in their texts
- Authors can ensure they have sufficiently cited their sources, and presented the highest quality original written work
- Used worldwide by scholarly publishers and research institutions
- Ensures originality of written work before publication
- Papers can be resubmitted up to 5 times
- Confidential **** (Only the IC submitting your report can see your report
- Can be used to find the source of an article
- Turnitin is used by instructors to check student’s work in a classroom setting
- Over 82 million journal articles and subscription content sources
- Over 135 million open access articles, books, conference proceedings , pre prints, encyclopedias, and abstracts
- iThenticate crawls over 90 billion current and archived web pages
The status of the upload is tracked within the report column of the folder inbox.
Documents normally take between 5-10 minutes to generate an Originality Report.
Very large files may take longer to generate a report.
The file may not exceed 400 pages or 40 MB.
Result example:
| Interpretation of Similarity Index |
- It reports on the total amount of matching texts
- It colour highlights and groups with the source where it came from
- Looks at the total % for individual similarities
- A single similarity of <5% is good
- For example, if total is 37% but each individual % is 1 and <1, it’s good
- If one similarity however has a high % (5+) that will be a red flag, and would need to be addressed
- Exclude references and direct quotes
- If folder is too big, recipient can be added to the iThenticate account to access their folder only
Analyse iThenticate’s match overview, and edit accordingly
- Not all matches are meaningful (common sentences /knowledge will be picked up)
- Re-submit, it can happen that the % goes up
| Dealing with a high % in the similarity report |
- Check in with your Information Consultant
- Paraphrase (putting the information and ideas you have learned into your words)
- Provide Proper In text Citation (using citation styles e.g. APA, Chicago, Harvard)
- Provide References (make sure your references are accurate to avoid misleading references)
- Quote Sources (use quotation marks followed by a citation in brackets)
- Break up sentences
- Authenticate Sources before using them (is the author reputable, information credible, check outdated publications, source accuracy)
- Allow ample time to fix all issues
