Counting Co-occurrences in Citations to Identify Plagiarised Text Fragments

摘要

Research in external plagiarism detection is mainly concerned with the comparison of the textual contents of a suspicious document against the contents of a collection of original documents. More recently, methods that try to detect plagiarism based on citation patterns have been proposed. These methods are particularly useful for detecting plagiarism in scientific publications. In this work, we assess the value of identifying co-occurrences in citations by checking whether this method can identify cases of plagiarism in a dataset of scientific papers. Our results show that most the cases in which co-occurrences were found indeed correspond to plagiarised passages.