An update on the CrossCheck plagiarism screening project for the Committee on Publication Ethics' Annual Meeting

1. Kirsty Meddings, CrossRef
COPE Seminar, 26th March 2010

3. Academic Press, a Harcourt Company
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Institute of Physics
Association for Computing Machinery
Blackwell Science
Elsevier Science
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Nature Publishing Group
Oxford University Press
Springer-Verlag
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

4. 10.1098/rstl.1665.0001

5. User clicks on
CrossRef DOI
reference link in
Journal A
Tani, N., N. Tomaru, M. Araki, AND K. Ohba. 1996. Genetic diversity and
differentiation in populations of Japanese stone pine (Pinus pumila) in
Japan. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1454–1462.[CrossRef]

6. User clicks on
CrossRef DOI
reference link in
Journal A
Tani, N., N. Tomaru, M. Araki, AND K. Ohba. 1996. Genetic diversity and
differentiation in populations of Japanese stone pine (Pinus pumila) in
Japan. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1454–1462.[CrossRef]
DOI
directory returns
URL

7. User clicks on
User accesses
CrossRef DOI
cited article in
reference link in
Journal B
Journal A
Tani, N., N. Tomaru, M. Araki, AND K. Ohba. 1996. Genetic diversity and
differentiation in populations of Japanese stone pine (Pinus pumila) in
Japan. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1454–1462.[CrossRef]
DOI
directory returns
URL

10. 3,002 publishers and societies
40,631,707 content items with DOIs
21,488 journals
103,419 books
17,161 conference proceedings

11. 30,000,000

12. "CrossRef is a not-for-pro t membership
association whose mission is to enable easy
identi cation and use of trustworthy electronic
content by promoting the cooperative
development and application of a sustainable
infrastructure."

13. "CrossRef is a not-for-pro t membership
association whose mission is to enable easy
identi cation and use of trustworthy electronic
content by promoting the cooperative
development and application of a sustainable
infrastructure."

14. 2006: CrossRef board raises plagiarism as
area of concern
Late 2007/ early 2008: pilot
June 2008: CrossCheck launched

15. Software that analyses and compares text
Database of content to check text against

18. ACTA Press ● American Academy of Pediatrics ● American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ● American
Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) ● American Diabetes Association ● American Geophysical
Union (AGU) ● American Institute of Physics (AIP) ● American Physical Society (APS) ● American Psychological Association ●
American Roentgen Ray Society ● American Society for Microbiology ● American Society for Nutrition ● American Society of
Neuroradiology (ASNR) ● American Society of Plant Biologists ● American Thoracic Society ● Ammons Scienti c ● Annual Reviews
● Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ● Australian Academic Press ● BioMed Central ● BioScienti ca ● BMJ Publishing
Group ● British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) ● Cambridge University Press ● Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine ●
Commonwealth Forestry Association ● Croatian Medical Journal ● Digital Science Press (Urotoday International Journal) ● EDP
Sciences ● Elsevier ● Environmental Health Perspectives ● European Respiratory Society Journals ● Expert Reviews Ltd ●
Fundacion Infancia & Aprendizaje (FIA) ● Future Medicine Ltd ● Future Science Ltd ● Geological Society of America ● Hindawi
Publishing Corporation ● IMAPS ● Inderscience ● INFORMS ● Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ● International
Union of Crystallography (IUCr) ● IOP Publishing ● IWA Publishing ● Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery ● Journal of Histochemistry
● Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group ● Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development ● Journal of Zhejiang University
SCIENCE ● King Abdulaziz University Scienti c Publishing Centre ● LWW / Wolters Kluwer Health ● Mary Ann Liebert ● Nature
Publishing Group ● New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS) ● Oncology Nursing Society ● Optical Society of America ●
Oxford University Press ● Palgrave Macmillan ● Poultry Science Association ● Professional Engineering Publishing ● RMIT
Publishing ● Rockefeller University Press ● Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ● Royal Irish Academy ● Sage Publications ●
ScienceAsia Mahidol University ● Society for Endocrinology ● Society for General Microbiology ● Society for Industrial & Applied
Mathematics (SIAM) ● Society of Exploration Geophysicists ● Springer Science + Business Media ● Taylor & Francis (Informa) ● The
Royal Society ● TUBITAK ● Versita (CESJ) ● Vilnius Gediminas Technical University ● Wiley-Blackwell

31. Manuscript
Triage Acceptance
Submission
Yes
No

32. Manuscript
Triage Acceptance
Submission
Yes
No
Prior to acceptance?
Author? On Submission? Triage?

37. 78 publishers
25 million content items indexed
45,000 titles
www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html

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39. CrossCheck Survey
Publisher Pilots
Publisher Feedback

40. CrossCheck Survey
October 2009

41. CrossCheck Survey
October 2009
At what point in the editorial process are you
checking manuscripts?
Pre-submission (author checking)
On submission
Prior to acceptance
Not checking yet
Other
0 2 4 6 8 10

42. CrossCheck Survey
October 2009

43. CrossCheck Survey
October 2009
For your particular publication(s), what percentage of manuscripts
are you checking or planning to check?
All submitted manuscripts
A percentage of manuscripts
Only those that arouse suspicion
Only those that are accepted
Other
0 2 4 6 8 10

44. CrossCheck Survey
October 2009

45. CrossCheck Survey
October 2009
Have you detected any plagiarised content using CrossCheck?
Yes
No
Not Sure
No response
0 5 10 15

46. Publisher Pilots
At what stage of the editorial process are you using CrossCheck?
On submission
Publisher A
By reviewers
Acceptance Publisher B
Post-acceptance
Only if suspicious
More than one of these
0 3 6 9 12 15
On submission
After acceptance
Other
0 5 10 15 20

47. Publisher Pilots
48% comfortable with
iThenticate software
after rst use
Further 33% after
two to ve uses

48. Publisher Pilots
50% of testers found
suspected plagiarism using
iThenticate

49. Publisher Pilots
Based on testing, do you want to continue
using iThenticate?
72% Yes
20% Maybe

50. Positive Feedback

51. Positive Feedback
“This is an invaluable tool and much
appreciated by our Editors.”

52. Positive Feedback
“This is an invaluable tool and much
appreciated by our Editors.”
“By far the most effective and nancially
feasible software that I have found.”

53. Positive Feedback
“This is an invaluable tool and much
appreciated by our Editors.”
“By far the most effective and nancially
feasible software that I have found.”
“CrossCheck is a valuable tool... Previously I would use Google
Scholar, then need to access the journal article to con rm
suspicions of plagiarism, which was very time consuming.”

54. Issues
Title: Example Article Number One
Authors: S. Smith
8,274 words - 163 matches - 38 sources

55. “In the long run it has saved
enormous amounts of time.”

56. “A game changer”

57. Why use CrossCheck?

58. Why use CrossCheck?
Deter would-be plagiarists from submitting
to - or copying from - your publications
Protect your reputation
Increase trust in your content by validating
its originality
Promote the value of the publishing process

59. Thank You
www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html
kmeddings@crossref.org