• J. Korean Med. Sci. · Aug 2023

    The Acceptable Text Similarity Level in Manuscripts Submitted to Scientific Journals.

    • Farrokh Habibzadeh.
    • Past President, World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Editorial Consultant, The Lancet, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Epidemiology. Farrokh.Habibzadeh@gmail.com.
    • J. Korean Med. Sci. 2023 Aug 7; 38 (31): e240e240.

    AbstractPlagiarism is among commonly identified scientific misconducts in submitted manuscripts. Some journals routinely check the level of text similarity in the submitted manuscripts at the time of submission and reject the submission on the fly if the text similarity score exceeds a set cut-off value (e.g., 20%). Herein, I present a manuscript with 32% text similarity, yet without any instances of text plagiarism. This underlines the fact that text similarity is not necessarily tantamount to text plagiarism. Every instance of text similarity should be examined with scrutiny by a trained person in the editorial office. A high text similarity score does not always imply plagiarism; a low score, on the other hand, does not guarantee absence of plagiarism. There is no cut-off for text similarity to imply text plagiarism.© 2023 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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