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How Not to Deal with It: A Case Study

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We describe here our own experience with plagiarism (which could not be detected by CrossCheck) in a particular article in the field of Engineering; our account was published under the title ‘Detecting and (Not) Dealing with Plagiarism in an Engineering Paper: Beyond CrossCheck—A Case Study’ [1] and is reproduced here in full, with the publisher’s permission.

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    OSI: The overall similarity index (OSI) is the percentage of similarity between a submission and information existing in the iThenticate databases selected as search targets [5, 14].

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    SMSI: The single match similarity index (SMSI) is the percentage of similarity from a single source between a submission and information existing in the iThenticate databases selected as search targets [5, 14].

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Zhang, Y.(. (2016). How Not to Deal with It: A Case Study. In: Against Plagiarism. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24160-9_4

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