If Admin has enabled similarity checking for your journal, you will be able to request a report on new submissions using iThenticate.

It may take up to 1 minute for the paper to be analyzed.  

When it is generated, you can view the report by clicking the link View Similarity Report.

Save the Similarity Report URL in the paper's notes

Do not regenerate similarity reports, but rather save the URL in the paper's notes.  Each similarity check wastes time and wastes money.  (It costs us over 75 cents USD per report.)



To avoid seeing false high similarity percentages, the default filtering is set so as not to check quoted materials or references and to list similarities only for large amounts of text. If you wish, you can click the filter to change these settings. Click the Filter to include them in the report. Read more about how to read the report at https://www.aje.com/arc/guide-how-to-read-ithenticate-report/ or watch the video at https://vimeo.com/210865038 .  All papers will have some similarity to other papers, so be sure to add filters so as not be be distracted with small similarities to common wording, such as mention of "the Ideal Mentor Scale" and "Self-Efficacy".

If you see a large similarity with another work, check the source of the similarity to determine if it is the author’s thesis or dissertation. The APA and we encourage authors to use journals as a broader outlet to disseminate dissertation research. If you feel the content is appropriate for review and that it has been adapted to the mission of your journals, we hope that you will advance the paper for review.  We do not consider such works as plagiarized. 

If you suspect plagiarism, place the paper on HOLD (see below) and ask the Executive Director (executivedirector@informingscience.org) to investigate.