June 10, 2005

Journal Publishers Turn to Software to Root Out Plagiarism by Scholars

By SCOTT CARLSON

Publishers of academic journals and scholarly articles are starting to use specialized software to root out instances of plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Such software, already used to check the work of students, can scan academic papers, compare them against others in a database, and find instances of common language and sentence structure.

The trend was first reported in Nature. The publication's article notes that major journal publishers, like Elsevier, are reviewing commercial

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