

The syntax in those occasions though is practically the same as the original passage I used in my publication as I have explained it once and was consider good, I find no reason to reinvent myself (I do a mild rewording as I mentioned but that is quite insignificant). The problem is that occasionally I am just explaining for instance how a certain estimation technique works in that case I cite the original authors and not myself. It goes without saying that I cite/quote me at the end of a passage if I say something non-obvious (I found that slightly funny. but it is practically me writing about what I wrote before. I try to restate them a bit, maybe change some words for their synonyms etc. My department does not allow a "publications-based" thesis so I need to write a thesis in the context of a book etc.Īs I write my thesis in a couple of places, especially in the literature review, I tend to reuse sentences from my publications. I have already published 2 journal papers and I have submitted 2 more papers for publications. This is an open access article distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.I am a final year PhD in UK in a scientific discipline and I am writing my thesis. Therefore, a paper deleted from an assignment may still come up as a 100% matching source on another paper’s Similarity Report.Īnother info can be seen at Turnitin Support Center. Note: Deleting a paper from the assignment inbox does not remove it from the Turnitin database. So, there are only two solutions to this: 1) the instructors need to understand how the Turnitin/ithenticate works for students’ assignments, and finding a journal that does not use the same organizational Turnitin/ithenticate account for submitting a manuscript, or 2) enjoying paraphrasing your work. So, if I use my account from the Faculty of Nursing and my friend uses another account from the Faculty of Engineering, and we submit the same document/paper, then 100% self matching occurs because both users use the same organizational Turnitin/ithenticate account, although they are from different faculties. Please note that one organizational Turnitin/ithenticate account will have multiple users but with the same database. After that, you submit a manuscript to the journal that uses the same Turnitin/ithenticate account. When you submit your dissertation, it will be checked using Turnitin/ithenticate automatically. It also happens with a dissertation/thesis. The journal editor and the students/faculty members submit the same document to the same Turnitin/ithenticate account. If the journal uses the same Turnitin/ithenticate account under a university where the students or faculty members are in there, then self-matching is identified. It is similar to the case of submitting a manuscript in a journal. Submitting papers as a non-enrolled student does not affiliate any link to the actual student user. If the student had already submitted that same paper to the same assignment or elsewhere, then the instructor’s submission will match the student’s paper 100% and vice-versa if the student submits their own paper after the instructor’s submission (as a non-enrolled student).


Self-matching may also occur when an instructor submits a student’s paper as a non-enrolled student to an assignment. This is because papers submitted to different classes are not automatically excluded as self matches However, a self-match can occur when a student submits the same paper to assignments in different classes where at least one of the assignments is set to save papers to the repository. If a student submits the same paper to multiple assignments in the same class, those submissions will not match each other, thanks to the default self-match exclusion. I just would like to provide a brief explanation about this topic. Well, it mostly happens with the students, either for the submission of multiple assignments or for submitting a manuscript in an international journal.
