Turnitin similarity check

1. Turnitin is an online software based on SAAS (Software as a Service) to check for the similarity in content for plagiarism.

2. Turnitin is not an open source therefore the institutions, universities have to pay for the software to use.

3. Turnitin was developed by John Barrie and Christian Storm launched in 1997 for educational industry.

4. Turnitin is a privately owned company which provides similarity checking by online based services on payment basis.

5. It gives the similarity check on plagiarized content to get similarity report also known as plagiarism report.

6. The research scholar or scientist can check for the similarity score on Turnitin by submitting their content.

7. In Turnitin, the similarity score is shown in terms of percentage of the plagiarized content in a report.

8. High similarity score does not always mean that the content is plagiarized because some sentences can be written, generally.

9. Turnitin provides easier interpretation by color coding, various filters and source for comparison for the similarity in content.

10. It compares the similarity in content from the database repository of various industries, academic institutions for plagiarism.

11. It enables students and researchers to use the paraphrasing, citation, quoting and sources of content, appropriately.

12. It protects the institutions and researchers from the research misconduct like plagiarism, Salami-slicing, contract cheating, etc. and follow the research ethics for writing thesis and/or research article.

13. It is considered that 10% or below similarity score is allowed to submit the research paper and thesis of Ph.D.

14. The researcher has to remove the uploaded file from the Turnitin after checking the similarity score and made the changes as required to get the limitation of 10% or below similarity score.