Turnitin

Turnitin is the world's leading web-based solution for plagiarism prevention, used by educators worldwide to check students' papers
for originality, to enable web-based peer review and for digital grading of student work. Turnitin is designed for students in a
classroom settings.

iThenticate

iThenticate is the leading online plagiarism checker software used by top research universities and institutions, businesses,
publishers, and government agencies, the ability to detect and prevent plagiarism and attribution issues that could potentially
damage reputations or spawn repercussions like financial and legal obligations.

Crossref®

Crossref® is a not-for-profit membership organization for scholarly publishers. The Crossref Similarity Check service offers publishers
a way to compare documents against the largest comparison database of scientific, technical and medical content in the world.
Crossref Similarity Check powered by iThenticate is an initiative between iThenticate and Crossref.

While iThenticate and Turnitin share the same underlying technology and database contents, the design, user experience and
outcome are designed to meet the needs of two very different types of users.

Comparison Table
Turnitin iThenticate

Audience  Students in the Classroom  Faculty, researchers corporate bodies,

 For instructors to check students' work governments
in a classroom setting  For postgraduate students and academic
staff/researchers to check their own work

Outcome Graded papers Published works

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Interface
 Course Management  Document Management

Display of Results  Document Viewer Document Viewer

Features  Originality Check Originality Check.

 Peer Mark

Submissions checked  Web pages  Web pages

against  Scholarly journals  Scholarly journals
 student paper database  ProQuest
 Other content

Submissions  (By default) added to student paper  Not added to database.

database
 Lecturer can change this setting.

Submission maximum  400 pages or less  400 pages or less

length and size**  40 MB or less.  40 MB or less.

File types MS Word, Word XML, WordPerfect, PostScript, MS Word, Word XML, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF,
PDF, HTML, RTF, HWP, plain text and MS HTML, RTF, HWP, plain text and OpenOffice (ODT).
PowerPoint.

Sharing Not standard Shared with multiple people

Databases 60 Billion web pages 60 Billion web pages

144 Million content items 144 Million content items
300 Million student papers 3000,000 ProQuest dissertations
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