Softwares to find co-references of 2 articles? To detect plagiarism

[Eugene Garfield]

If you look up each of the two articles in the WebofScience and store the complete Source record  in a HistCite collection you would determine the degree of bibliographic coupling quite easily. Each  of the co-Cited References would have a citation frequency of 2. As you indicate, variations in the format of the cited references may be a problem but the HistCite software simplifies the task of unifying the variants. You can test this out by going to www.histcite.com

Plagiarism comes in a variety of forms including citation amnesia which I discussed many years ago in Current Contents
>From Citation Amnesia to Bibliographic Plagiarism 
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v4p503y1979-80.pdf  
  
A pure case of grand larceny plagiarism is identified by a perfect match in the set of references cited in the original work as well as the plagiarized work. Best wishes. Eugene Garfield


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> Hello everybody,
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> I have to find bibliographic coupling similarity between 2
> articles by 
> computing the number of co-references between them. The lists of 
> references of the articles are available in text files. An 
> exact match 
> approach (like grep command in Unix) may lose many co-references (for 
> example, if there is a very little difference between references of 2 
> articles ). Therefore I'm looking for a software (or algorithm)  that 
> can do this task better.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> T. Van
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