Plagiarism prevention with CrossCheck

Springer is offering the Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) software to Journal Editors of Springer journals and Society & Publishing Partners journals to check an authored work against millions of other published scholarly articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, other academic content, and billions of web pages to ensure its originality. The web-based tool can be used in the editorial process to identify matching text but it cannot, on its own, identify plagiarism. Manual examination of the matching text is still required and judgment used to identify if plagiarism has occurred or not.

Plagiarism detection at an early stage may be helpful to:

• educate authors who are less familiar with the ethics of publishing;
• reduce the workload for editors and reviewers if ethical issues are captured at an early stage.

If you wish to use the "iThenticate" software for your journal, please contact your Springer Publishing Editor.

Springer has developed several guides on how to use the "iThenticate" software:

• Tips and tricks for first time users
• The Springer Complete Guide to using iThenticate
• Tips and tricks - how to interpret the results