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ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2023

The Acceptable Text Similarity Level in Manuscripts Submitted to Scientific Journals.

Farrokh Habibzadeh

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Article in Journal of Korean medical science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. How do oncology journals approach plagiarism? A website review.Research integrity and peer review · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Plagiarism: A Bird's Eye View.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023
    Review
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Farrokh HabibzadehPast President, World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Editorial Consultant, The Lancet, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Epidemiology. Farrokh.Habibzadeh@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5360-2900

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plagiarism is among commonly identified scientific misconducts in submitted manuscripts. Some journals routinely check the level of text similarity in the submitted manuscripts at the time of submission and reject the submission on the fly if the text similarity score exceeds a set cut-off value (

Indexed as

Periodicals as TopicScientific MisconductPlagiarismJournalismPlagiarismPublication EthicsScientific WritingText SimilarityVerbatim

Identifiers

PMID37550808
PMCPMC10412031

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