It’s encouraging to see that journals adopting a screening policy can observe an increase in desk-reject rates and faster decision times, along with an improvement in the quality of papers sent out for review.
EES will provide a direct link to the full CrossCheck report for each submission.
We are pleased to report that by the beginning of next year we expect EES submissions to be automatically run through the software. The results from this mode can also be saved and printed to simplify sharing between editors.Ī frequent request from editors was to integrate iThenticate with EES to minimize the time needed to upload the files to the software. The latest release on 24 th September this year lets users exclude the Abstract or Materials and Methods sections.Ī new viewing mode, Document Viewer, retains the layout of the original document (including figures and equations), making it more straightforward to spot where the overlap is and navigate through the document efficiently. must be greater than 10 words, which makes the reports easier to interpret and analyze. Since May 2013, users can now specify the length of individual matches, e.g. For example, a common complaint was that short, standard phrases in the field could add noise to the Similarity Reports. There’s a big difference between similarities in the research methodology descriptions and the actual research findings.” What’s new in iThenticateīased on your feedback, recent releases have improved functionality. It depends very much on whose text is reused and in which part of the paper. He said: “iThenticate helps in identifying textual similarity, but it is very important that the editor uses a sound judgment on the similarities found.
Such software can only be as good as the database it uses, and this is a large part of the reason that iThenticate is so successful – CrossCheck’s database is arguably the most complete and up-to-date of its kind available, with major publishers and societies contributing full-text content to it.Įditor-in-Chief of Information and Software Technology, ProfessorClaes Wohlin, has been using iThenticate since 2010. The main function of iThenticate is to identify the textual overlap of a manuscript against CrossCheck’s growing database of published works and internet sources.
We expect that the upcoming integration of iThenticate into Elsevier’s Editorial System (EES), which will make it possible to automatically run English-language submissions through the software, will see that usage continue to rise. That enabled us to incorporate into our editorial workflows iThenticate, the software that powers CrossCheck.įor many journals, this software is now indispensable – more than 4,000 editors at 800 Elsevier journals have iThenticate accounts, and editor usage of the software is up 41 percent on last year. To help address this obvious pain point for our editors, in 2008 we joined CrossCheck TM, a collaboration between major publishers and CrossRef® to prevent plagiarism, simultaneous submission and multiple publication. Unfortunately, a small percentage fails to meet our ethics guidelines and nearly 50 percent of those cases are suspected plagiarism. How CrossCheck can combat the perils of plagiarism Introducing a collaboration between major publishers By Laura Schmidt and Gaia Lupo Posted on 4 November 2013Īt Elsevier, we receive around a million articles per year for publication in our journals.