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Plagiarism Detection

Catch unintentional overlap before you submit

Check your manuscripts against all documents uploaded to Alfred Scholar to find passages that are too similar. Identify unintentional paraphrasing overlaps and ensure your writing is original before submitting to a journal.

How plagiarism detection works

Alfred compares your manuscript against hundreds of thousands of documents in seconds.

1

Select a manuscript

Choose the manuscript you want to check from your workspace. Alfred extracts the text content for analysis.

2

Compare against all documents

Alfred compares your manuscript against every document uploaded to the platform, not just your own. Matches are found in seconds, even across hundreds of thousands of papers.

3

Review the report

Get a detailed report with an overall similarity score and specific matches showing which passages overlap with which documents.

Designed for academic integrity

Cross-platform comparison

Alfred checks your manuscript against all documents uploaded to the platform. This catches unintentional overlap with source material, even papers uploaded by other researchers.

Similarity scoring

Each match includes a similarity score from 0 to 1, so you can quickly identify which passages need the most attention. The overall report score gives you a quick pass/fail indicator.

Fast at scale

Alfred can scan hundreds of thousands of documents in seconds. Your manuscript is checked against the entire document collection on the platform, so results are comprehensive and fast.

Detailed match reports

See exactly which passages in your manuscript match other documents, with similarity scores for each match. Fix overlap before your journal's plagiarism checker flags it.

Check your paper before you submit

Run a plagiarism check against hundreds of thousands of documents in seconds. Free during early access, no credit card required.