PAPER ID: IJIM/Vol. 8 (XI) March 2024/10-17 /2

AUTHOR: Dr. Deepti Madaan

TITLE: PDS AND ITS SIMILARITY INDEX REPORT: VIEWPOINT OF RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF UNIVERSITIES OF NORTH-WESTERN REGION OF INDIA

ABSTRACT: In the past few years, plagiarism has become an alarming threat to the domain of academics as it undermines efforts of the main authors. To curb this ill practice, many plagiarism detection software have come up which catch the copied text. In this way, they keep plagiarism at bay and help in bringing ethics into academics and research. This study is an attempt to know the difficulties faced by the research scholars of selected universities in using PDS, their awareness on similarity report generated by PDS, their understanding in getting lower similarity score, their knowledge on giving responsibility about plagiarism detection in their respective institution. Survey of research scholars from the selected universities of North-Western region of India was conducted through questionnaire method. Data collected was entered into MS Excel and was analysed using percentage method. 51.4% of the research scholars worked on Plagiarism Detection Software. 40.3% of them gave preferences to “percentage as a criterion” for generating Similarity Index Report. 33.1% of the research scholars favoured “<10%” as ‘No penalty stage’. Large number of research scholars (65.7%) agreed that quoted text should be excluded to get lower similarity score. More than half of the research scholars (51.4%) suggested that Supervisor himself/herself should have the access to plagiarism detection tool. This research paper is original, fully written by the authors. Due attribution has been given to the previous studies as well as other references.

KEYWORDS:Plagiarism, Research Scholars, PDS, Similarity Score, Exclusion Criteria, HEI

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