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Forms of Plagiarism in Digital Mathematical Libraries

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Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2019)

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Abstract

We report on an exploratory analysis of the forms of plagiarism observable in mathematical publications, which we identified by investigating editorial notes from zbMATH. While most cases we encountered were simple copies of earlier work, we also identified several forms of disguised plagiarism. We investigated 11 cases in detail and evaluate how current plagiarism detection systems perform in identifying these cases. Moreover, we describe the steps required to discover these and potentially undiscovered cases in the future.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/iparadigms-inc.

  2. 2.

    https://www.turnitin.com.

  3. 3.

    https://www.turnitin.com/products/ithenticate.

  4. 4.

    https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.retractionwatch.com.

  6. 6.

    http://www.vroniplag.wikia.com.

  7. 7.

    http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/.

  8. 8.

    As of 2019-03-19 see https://zbmath.org/about/#id_4 for updated numbers.

  9. 9.

    https://zbmath.org.

  10. 10.

    We use zbMATH identifiers for referring to cases throughout the paper. The identifiers resolve via, e.g., https://zbmath.org/1191.35223 to documents accessible without subscription.

  11. 11.

    See https://zbmath.org/general-help/ for the details of the search syntax.

  12. 12.

    https://grobid.readthedocs.io.

  13. 13.

    https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer/.

  14. 14.

    For example: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/reports/2017/pdfs/815.pdf.

  15. 15.

    A value above 0.2 is considered as suspicious.

  16. 16.

    https://www.hyplag.org/ user cicm@hyplag.org pw: cicm2019.

  17. 17.

    https://www.emis.de/misc/articles/ext05526289.html.

  18. 18.

    https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=3820.

  19. 19.

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02463791.

  20. 20.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2011.01.043.

  21. 21.

    https://math.berkeley.edu/~kwray/papers/string_theory.pdf.

  22. 22.

    https://www.cs.rit.edu/~crohme2019/index.html.

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This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG grant GI-1259-1).

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  1. University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

    Moritz Schubotz, Vincent Stange, Norman Meuschke & Bela Gipp

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    Moritz Schubotz & Olaf Teschke

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Schubotz, M., Teschke, O., Stange, V., Meuschke, N., Gipp, B. (2019). Forms of Plagiarism in Digital Mathematical Libraries. In: Kaliszyk, C., Brady, E., Kohlhase, A., Sacerdoti Coen, C. (eds) Intelligent Computer Mathematics. CICM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11617. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23250-4_18

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