iThenticate is a text similarity matching tool that is used by major scholarly publishers and research institutions to screen manuscript submissions and verify originality and the appropriate use and citation of third-party work. iThenticate has been developed specifically for academics and researchers and compares a submitted piece of work against databases of scholarly work and theses and dissertations.
iThenticate does not capture unpublished work and will not add your work to any database.
Our current subscription allows for a specific number of reviews and MBZUAI Library will try to distribute the resource as fairly as possible.
1 submission per person/paper per month.
Complete the request form here
Explore the iThenticate User Manual and find more information on:
MBZUAI students will be required to submit their manuscripts for screening before their final assessments. The Graduate Thesis Guide will be updated to describe the necessary process.
The following document types are supported:
Word, Text, PostScript, PDF, HTML, Excel, PowerPoint, Word Perfect WPD, OpenOffice ODT, RTF, Hangul HWP
How do we exclude the bibliography section and self-plagiarised sources from the iThenticate-generated plagiarism report?
Click "View Sources" at the bottom of the taskbar of the similarity report that has been prepared to exclude the reference section. Then, choose "exclude bibliography" to remove the reference section from the list of options available and eliminate different document sections.
Click "View/edit filters and settings" at the bottom right of the taskbar, choose the self-plagiarized sources from the plagiarism index table on the left navigation bar under "All Sources," and then click "Exclude Sources".
In a thesis, how can self-plagiarized content that has been published elsewhere be quantified?
Email to etd.deposit@mbzuai.ac.ae and copy to your supervisor explaining that your thesis similarity report generated using the University iThenticate service results in 40%, which is more than the accepted similarity rate of 20%. This is because your thesis is based on your published research papers (provide the URL of the published article, as an example below):