Using structural information and citation evidence to detect significant plagiarism cases in scientific publications

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 286-312

  Alzahrani, Salha ^a   Palade, Vasile ^b   Salim, Naomie ^c   Abraham, Ajith ^d  

^a TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10-FOLD CROSS-VALIDATION; COMPARISON UNIT; COSINE COEFFICIENT; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GENERIC CLASS; JACCARD COEFFICIENTS; PLAGIARISM DETECTION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; SCREENING PROCESS; SIMILARITY INDICES; STATISTICAL MEASURES; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TF-IDF WEIGHTING;

DETECTORS; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

EID: 84857361390     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21651     Document Type: Article

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