J Korean Med Sci.  2020 Jul;35(27):e217. 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e217.

Similarity and Plagiarism in Scholarly Journal Submissions: Bringing Clarity to the Concept for Authors, Reviewers and Editors

• Memon AR

• KMID: 2504261
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e217

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  Fig. 1 Turnitin report for text similarity based on a randomly written text (on April 2, 2020). The author of this paper has access to Turnitin through the University and not to iThenticate. Therefore, Turnitin was used as an example in Fig. 1.

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