Plagiarism detection 2.0
Publishers are getting a new tool in the fight against plagiarism in scientific manuscripts. The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters linkurl:announced;https://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/press/2008/8452130/ on May 1 that they would be offering their clients - the publishers of many well-read science journals - the option to employ iThenticate, a tool that checks submitted manuscripts for potential copy-catting against databases of previously published work. According to Logan Hutchinson,
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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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