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Detecting Potential Plagiarism

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There are now a variety of online tools available which can compare a submitted text with texts already in its database (or freely available online). The most widely used are CrossCheck, which is mainly used for texts in English, and AMLC (Academic Manuscript Literature Checking) from CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) that almost covers all contents of Chinese Integrated Knowledge Resources Database and is mainly used for texts in Chinese.

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Zhang, Y.(. (2016). Detecting Potential Plagiarism. In: Against Plagiarism. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24160-9_9

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