February 1, 2007

Plagiarism Detection in arXiv (2007)

Sorokina Daria, Gehrke Johannes, Warner Simeon, Ginsparg Paul

Abstract
We describe a large-scale application of methods for finding plagiarism in research document collections. The methods are applied to a collection of 284,834 documents collected by arXiv.org over a 14 year period, covering a few different research disciplines. The methodology efficiently detects a variety of problematic author behaviors, and heuristics are developed to reduce the number of false positives. The methods are also efficient enough to implement as a real-time submission screen for a collection many times larger>>>

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