This wiki (English homepage) documents cases of plagiarism in doctoral dissertations. We are happy to answer your questions in our → chat room, especially if you introduce yourself (English is fine).

How to read the profiles of the individual dissertations?Bearbeiten

Consider the following example (explained below):

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Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Dissertation von Silvana Koch-Mehrin: Historische Währungsunion zwischen Wirtschaft und PolitikBearbeiten

Eingereicht 2000 an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Volker Sellin, Prof. Dr. Clemens Zimmermann. Veröffentlicht: Baden-Baden 2001. → Nachweis Deutsche Nationalbibliothek → ISBN 3-7890-7631-7. Bekanntgabe Aberkennung des Doktorgrades: 15. Juni 2011

Interpretationshilfe für die Prozentzahl über dem Barcode: Sie drückt den Anteil der Seiten aus, die Plagiate enthalten, nicht den Plagiatsanteil am Fließtext.

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On top of the section, there is the bibliographic metadata of the dissertation, along with links to online versions if available. Below that, the barcode provides a visualization of the extent of plagiarism that has been detected in the dissertation so far, expressed as the percentage of pages on which cases of plagiarism have been found (34.33% in the example). For the calculation of this number, blue pages (typically the table of contents and the bibliography) were not considered. Gray signifies pages for which some incidence of plagiarism has been found, black pages contain verified cases of plagiarism, whereas dark red and light red stand for more than 50% or 75% of a page having been plagiarized.