Monday, September 2, 2019

Editorial: screening for duplicated text in submited manuscript – false positive and editorial awareness


EDITORIAL: SCREENING FOR DUPLICATED TEXT IN SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPT – FALSE POSITIVE AND EDITORIAL AWARENESS



Joob B, Noda M. Editorial: screening for duplicated text in submited manuscript – false positive and editorial awareness. Case Study Case Rep. 2019; 9(4): 50 - 53.

ABSTRACT

Unethical practice in academic publicaiton is not an uncommon problem. A commmon problem is the duplication of already published materials. The duplicated text might appear in any submitted article. It is the role of the editorial team to screen for any possible duplicated text in submitted article for publicaiton. The use of computational screening tool is widely used in the presnt day. An important concern is a possibility of false positive due to computational screening for duplicated text. Here, the authors demonstrate an example of false positive case and discuss on this specific issue.

Keywords: dublication, plagiarism, screening, software, awareness

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