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

reduce the workload for editors and reviewers if ethical issues are captured at an early stage.

educate authors who are less familiar with the ethics of publishing.

Plagiarism detection at an early stage may be helpful to: Manual examination of the matching text is still required and judgment used to identify if plagiarism has occurred or not. The web-based tool can be used in the editorial process to identify matching text but it cannot, on its own, identify plagiarism. Plagiarism Detection Software Demo iThenticate.

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. Although, you can use the free alternative Viper, which is downloadable software, but is available only for Windows. iThenticate does not offer a free trial.See additional pricing details.

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