iThenticate

Welcome to the iThenticate Guide. This guide provides an overview of iThenticate, a tool for checking originality and ensuring proper citation before submitting scholarly work. Use it to learn how to request a submission and interpret reports.

iThenticate is a text-matching software developed by the creators of Turnitin, designed for researchers and academics to review their work prior to publication. Leading publishers and research institutions use iThenticate to:

• Address potential text-matching issues
• Identify unintended duplication
• Verify proper citation of non-original content

With iThenticate, authors can check their work against a vast database of web pages and scholarly sources, generating a similarity score and report for review. Use iThenticate to publish with confidence!

iThenticate does NOT:

• Save a copy of any submitted file
• Compare text in different languages
• Match diagrams, tables, or images

iThenticate scans a submission against its content database. If matching text is found, it’s flagged for review in the Similarity Report, which provides:

• An overall percentage of matched text based on word count
• Details on matching sources and specific text matches

Important Notes:

• iThenticate does not determine if matched text is plagiarized. Use your judgment to identify whether highlighted text (such as quotes) is correctly attributed.
• The presence of matching text doesn’t necessarily indicate plagiarism, and there is no correct “threshold” for matching percentages. Each discipline may have different standards for quoting.