An Analysis of the Impact of Introducing the Plagiarism Detection System in an Institute of Higher Education

Ranjeet Kumar () and R. C. Tripathi ()
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Ranjeet Kumar: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, India
R. C. Tripathi: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, India

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2017, vol. 16, issue 02, 1-21

Abstract: In the current technical scenario of the world, the importance of Intellectual Properties is growing at a fast pace in the business, education and the publishing industry particularly for those who have utilised the power of the internet to access any data, anytime, anywhere. The protection of copyright has therefore become a major concern in the said domain scenario since the theft of textual contents known as “Plagiarism” has emerged as a major menace. For this, a software plagiarism detection tool was developed earlier by us to find contents of a newly created work to be copyrighted in regard to what of its portions have been plagiarised and to what extent along with from which source whether from a local repository/database or from resources available over the internet. In the present paper, it has been used to analyse what way plagiarism would have infested the technical creativity of a typical newly established institute of higher education and research in IT, ECE, MBA, etc. had there been no such plagiarism detection tool available at all. The analysis is presented for arriving at overall scenario of plagiarism found in MTech thesis works, research papers, the book chapters written by faculty members and the research papers received in a couple of International Conferences organised by the institute etc. It is concluded that about 8.7% works manifested plagiarism of 20% or more in an institute just established almost a decade back. The tool has made profound impact in controlling plagiarism in the institute finally to reach almost zero level by fully revealing the contents plagiarised along with their sources. Guidelines have been arrived and reported here first time to advise the young authors how to mitigate the problem of plagiarism and thus assure that all the copyrightable works of the institute become free from plagiarism before they leave the station.

Keywords: Plagiarism detection; textual similarity; content similarity; intellectual thefts; copyright infringements/violations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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