Copy Cat

Plagiarism is a big deal from high school all the way till your career. the world wide web makes it so easy to steal other peoples work and claim it as your own, as simple as three clicks of a mouse and you have yourself a piece that people can think is brilliant. Various publishing groups are now taking strict actions to reinforce their publication policies. There are dozens of free tools to detect plagiarism , I-Thenticate, Turn It In and Cross Ref. are a few to name. also their is a new software out that still goes by the name Cross Ref, but the makers of Turn It In and the original Cross Ref merged to make the new Cross Ref even better. There were a few huge investigations of plagiarism, sampling of some articles (News Papers, Doctors etc.) the way the red flags were raised were with high human inspections in conjunctions with computational tools (E. Blast, Deja Vu). In two thousand nine, Deja Vu found two hundred twelve possible plagiarism, out of nine thousand one hundred twenty entered in the database. The average text from the original articles were 86%. 71.4% shared at least one highly similar tables. 42% also contained incorrect calculations, data inconstancies and reproduced or manipulated photos. The data collected with additional info based on their personal communications with authors and journal editors directly associated with one hundred sixty three of these cases of potential plagiarism. 93% were not aware of the duplicates of their work (originals). Out of the 60 who were caught plagiarizing  28% denied any wrong doing, 35% admitted to borrowing previous material published, 22% were from co-authors and 17% claimed they were unaware that their names appeared on the questioned it.