Urkund/Ouriginal: Experiences about an unavailable tool for identifying coincidences

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ethics of scientific publications, journal articles, data registry

Abstract

Introduction: Ouriginal is software that helps detect and prevent plagiarism regardless of language. It brings together the combined experience of Urkund and PlagScan of more than three decades and is trusted by hundreds of companies and educational institutions worldwide. Regarding the work with the Cuban medical journals, it began to be used in 2021, and it was ordered to be used with all the articles to be processed by the end of that year. Recently, the Cuban journals have been denied access to this tool.

Objective: To show the experiences of working with Ouriginal in the Cuban Journal of Health and Labor from August to December 2021.

Methods: A user profile was created in the system. The established procedures for analyzing manuscripts and identifying coincidences were observed. A log of results and a template for editorial analysis of the reports were created. This analysis and the software report are included with the article in the submission for proofreading.

Results: Twenty-eight articles were processed and twenty-six software reports were analyzed, excluding two manuscripts returned for other reasons. All the detected coincidences were investigated, regardless of the percentage they accounted for. Unjustified similarities were not observed, nor were unethical authorial behaviors detected.

Conclusions: Ouriginal was a useful and effective tool for the identification of coincidences and the prevention of possible plagiarism in scientific publication. It is necessary to find a way to access this software again.

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Author Biography

Jesús Salvador Hernández Romero, Instituto Nacional de Salud de los Trabajadores

Licenciado en Economía. Máster en Salud de los Trabajadores. Investigador Auxiliar. Departamento de Investigaciones y Docencia.

Secretario del Consejo Científico.

Editor Ejecutivo de la Revista Cubana de Salud y Trabajo.

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Published

2022-08-05

How to Cite

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Hernández Romero JS. Urkund/Ouriginal: Experiences about an unavailable tool for identifying coincidences. rev cuban salud trabajo [Internet]. 2022 Aug. 5 [cited 2025 Jul. 30];23(3). Available from: https://revsaludtrabajo.sld.cu/index.php/revsyt/article/view/324