SIMILARITY AND PLAGIARISM: NEW CHALLENGES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Abstract

Since the installation of a similarity identification system, in February 2015, RAE team has been dedicated to understandand classify the various types of similarities foundin the articles submitted for evaluation. Although this new toolfacilitates the digital checking of similarity between a very largeamount of texts already published, the task of sorting the differentcases that we have seen is more complex than it mightseem at first