CitePlag is the first prototype of a citation-based Plagiarism Detection (CbPD) System.

The prototype was just recently demonstrated at this year’s SIGIR conference.

So what’s novel about CitePlag?

In contrast to existing text-based approaches to plagiarism detection, CitePlag does not analyze literal text matches alone to determine document suspiciousness – but rather, CitePlag makes use of the unique citation placement in the full-text of documents to determine similarity and detect potential plagiarism.

In examining citation placement, position, and order, CitePlag forms a text-independent / and even language-barrier transcending “fingerprint” of the semantic content of documents, which can then be used to detect potential unoriginality and plagiarism.

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CitePlag has come a long way from it’s humble beginnings in 2010, when we first proposed a citation-based approach to detect semantic similarity between documents for use in plagiarism detection. A year later, we developed the algorithms, and today we have a working prototype available for public use!

CitePlag now received a new homepage featuring improved functionality.

You can:

  1. upload your own files (PDF/ text documents)
  2. examine the most plagiarism findings and example of retracted plagiarism cases
  3. compare any two publications from the Open Access subset of the PubMed’s database (200,000+ medical publications)

Test the CitePlag prototype for yourself at its new home on the web: http://citeplag.org/

If you’re curious about the project, see our related publications for more details on CbPD, or read my doctoral thesis, which narrows in on all aspects of Citation-based Plagiarism Detection.

  • [PDF] [DOI] B. Gipp, N. Meuschke, C. Breitinger, M. Lipinski, and A. Nuernberger, “Demonstration of Citation Pattern Analysis for Plagiarism Detection,” in Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, UK, 2013.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{Gipp13,
  title        = {{D}emonstration of {C}itation {P}attern {A}nalysis for {P}lagiarism {D}etection},
  author       = {{G}ipp, {B}ela and {M}euschke, {N}orman and {B}reitinger, {C}orinna and {L}ipinski, {M}ario and {N}uernberger, {A}ndreas},
  year         = 2013,
  month        = {Jul. 28 - Aug. 1},
  booktitle    = {{P}roceedings of the 36th {I}nternational {ACM} {SIGIR} {C}onference on {R}esearch and {D}evelopment in {I}nformation {R}etrieval},
  publisher    = {ACM},
  address      = {Dublin, UK},
  doi          = {10.1145/2484028.2484214},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2484028.2484214},
  topic        = {pd}
}
  • [PDF] B. Gipp, Doctoral Thesis: Citation-based Plagiarism Detection: Applying Citation Pattern Analysis to Identify Currently Non-Machine-Detectable Disguised Plagiarism in Scientific Publications, University of Magdeburg, 2013.
    [Bibtex] 
    @book{Gipp13a,
  title        = {{D}octoral {T}hesis: {C}itation-based {P}lagiarism {D}etection: {A}pplying {C}itation {P}attern {A}nalysis to {I}dentify {C}urrently {N}on-{M}achine-{D}etectable {D}isguised {P}lagiarism in {S}cientific {P}ublications},
  author       = {{G}ipp, {B}ela},
  year         = 2013,
  publisher    = {University of Magdeburg},
  school       = {Department of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany},
  topic        = {pd}
}