On June 12, CNKI issued an announcement saying that it will provide duplicate checking services directly to individual users.According to reports, this move is a rectification measure implemented after comprehensively considering the needs of academic regulation management and the actual needs of teachers and students.The price of the personal version is set at 1.5 yuan/thousand words, which is not higher than the price of mainstream similar products in the market, referring to the prevailing method of charging by the number of characters in the market.At the same time, CNKI will continue to provide free dissertation checking services to postgraduates through graduate schools of universities, and the number of free checks will increase from 1.5 per capita to 3 per capita.Why does CNKI support the opening of personal duplication checking this time?What is the attitude of college teachers and students?What impact will it have on academic innovation?
Open personal check service
Eliminate the black market and high prices
When conducting independent research, it is necessary to cite literature, cite classic views, and industry consensus. However, many college students have problems such as non-subjective citations or non-standard citations in the process of dissertation creation.According to the Yangcheng Evening News reporter's investigation, since CNKI did not open weight checking to individuals before, students' needs for self-examination of academic standards have not been met. On the one hand, there are many weight checking software and services on the market, but some weight checking tools lack professional skills. On the other hand, the black market prices are extremely high, and they are even artificially hyped during the graduation season.
Han Xiao, a doctoral student from a top-ranking university in Beijing, told reporters based on his own experience in duplicate checking, "Students usually go to Taobao to buy CNKI duplicate checking services, and many people don't know how to obtain high-quality duplicate checking services from CNKI's official website. , some students spent seven or eight hundred yuan, but do not know how reliable the report is. Therefore, I hope to provide an official testing channel." An undergraduate student in Guangdong also felt the same way, "I don't know about channels other than CNKI. Where, I heard that Taobao is fake, I dare not use it. I hope there are other pre-check channels besides schools."
According to a number of college students in Guangzhou interviewed by this reporter, the one or two free weight check opportunities provided by the school during the graduation season is a test of the timing of use. Poor use may affect the progress of graduation, so students will find some before the official weight check. Websites or "copycat versions of CNKI" claiming to be duplication-checkable first conduct self-checks.
Undergraduate student Li Chengcheng (pseudonym) said: "The school stipulates that students submit their papers by themselves, but there is only one chance to check the duplicates. Most of the students have passed the tests of Xuexin, PPYY, Wanwei, etc., and they will generally check in advance. I hope Zhiwang can provide the official website. Check the channel again."
The reporter found that activities such as "registration/sign-in and free word count" and other activities seem to be overvalued, but there are hidden dangers such as article security and deviation in the accuracy of duplicate checking.Not only that, for a large paper of more than 10,000 words, although it is understandable to spend money on duplicate checking, the price of duplicate checking services on the market is not uniform and transparent, and there is no unified objective standard to measure the rationality and fairness of prices and services. sex.
The person in charge of the graduate school of a well-known university in Beijing pointed out, "Because of all the needs of students, schools, and research institutes, when the needs are not met, rent-seeking behavior occurs, which makes the duplication checking service alienated and spills over. Every paper on the black market is duplication checked. It’s expensive. It adds to the burden on a lot of students, which leads to complaints.”
A personal check tool will help
Students make academic innovations
In recent years, my country has further strengthened the construction of scientific research integrity, and achieved certain results in terms of working mechanism, institutional norms, education guidance, supervision and punishment, etc. However, there are still shortcomings and weak links on the whole, and behaviors that violate the requirements of scientific research integrity still occur from time to time. .It is understood that most schools currently use the duplication check service mainly to protect the intellectual property rights of authors, provide clues about suspected plagiarism, plagiarism, multiple submissions in one manuscript, and control the academic quality of papers.
"The significance of the launch of the personal duplication checking service is not only here." The relevant person in charge of CNKI said that the duplication checking system, as a tool that can be used to check papers in batches, although it cannot summarize all the value of an article, nor can it replace The determination of academic value, but the repetition rate of words obtained through computer comparative analysis has great reference value to prevent plagiarism and plagiarism of papers, and can assist peer reviewers to make faster and better decisions.Therefore, the duplication checking system is also one of the necessary ways to establish a scientific research integrity system, which puts forward higher requirements for the positioning of the duplication checking system.
Dong Li, director of the Teaching Evaluation Office of the Department of Academic Affairs of Peking University, believes, "It is necessary to consider pre-examination. Some undergraduates forget to mark when citing literature, which leads to the problem of high duplication ratio. Through pre-examination, students can Prompts in the process of learning and writing can guide them to form good writing habits and help them to mark standard references, so that there will be fewer problems in the process of writing graduation thesis in the later stage.”
The significance of students' self-examination by using the weight-checking system is to improve the innovation of the article's arguments.Song Bo, director of the Quality Supervision Office of the Graduate School of China University of Political Science and Law, believes, "From the perspective of academic innovation itself, a student should devote his energy to how to carry out academic innovation, not how to avoid duplicate checks. The school has also issued relevant notices for this. Even so, it still can’t stop the students’ need to check the duplicates. The task of CNKI and the school administration department is how to avoid excessive revision of papers by students who write seriously, and also prevent Students who do not have the ability to innovate academically use duplicate checking software to wash and rewrite their manuscripts.”
According to the relevant person in charge of CNKI, one of the most important functions of the personal duplicate check tool is to help students judge whether their innovative ideas and innovative methods are valid as soon as possible, improve the efficiency of their independent paper writing, and devote more energy to the real When it comes to innovative work, users should use the duplication checking tool correctly, rather than using it to opportunistically.
Personal check service
The price is 1.5 yuan/thousand words
It is worth noting that this time CNKI directly provides duplicate checking services for individual users, which is different from the indirect service method in which users need to use the service through their institutions in the past. Individual users can now directly register and use the CNKI official website as an individual. The pricing of the personal version refers to the charging mode of charging by the number of characters in the market, and is set at 1.5 yuan/thousand words, which is not higher than the price of mainstream similar products in the market.
According to a previous investigation by a reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News, before CNKI opened up personal duplication checking, users could find some shops on the black market that provided personal duplication checking tools under the banner of CNKI. In the user comment area, many people could see duplicate checking. There are errors in the results, and there are deviations from the genuine CNKI results provided by the school.
Searching for “HowNet Checking” on a famous e-commerce platform, two stores with monthly sales of 1w+ are screened out. They are priced by each time. The undergraduate thesis detection system is 198 yuan per time, and the upper limit of 6w characters can be checked, which is converted into a thousand-character price. It is 3.3 yuan.However, the number of words in a general undergraduate dissertation is between 5,000 and 15,000 words. Excluding the situation of checking the duplicates with classmates, the price per 1,000 characters is 13.2 yuan (calculated by 15,000 words) under normal demand.
Compared with the third-party market quotations, the re-check quotations from regular channels such as CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, and Longyuan are stable.It is reported that its quotation is positively correlated with the accumulation of data resources, the total category and quantity of academic literature included, the number of journals, and the quantity and quality of exclusive journals. Word-3 yuan/thousand words within the range.It can be expected that after CNKI opens the personal duplication checking service this time, it will play a greater blow to the gray industry chain of online duplication checking services.
Graduate Dissertation Free
The number of duplicate checks increased to 3 per capita
The reporter also noticed that the direct duplicate check service opened to individuals this time does not include postgraduate dissertations.In the FAQ of HowNet, it stated that, in view of the particularity of postgraduate dissertation management and the differences in disciplines, school-running levels, and management policies of various schools, HowNet will continue to provide postgraduates with free dissertation checking services through graduate schools. From the original 1.5 per capita to 3 per capita.
The reporter learned from the relevant person in charge of CNKI that CNKI is expanding the scope of opening to provide the school's internal institutions (such as libraries, scientific research management departments, etc.) with an annual and unlimited service method as a formal channel in the school , to provide individual postgraduates with dissertation checking services to meet the research needs of postgraduate groups.In particular, it should be noted that the test and comparison library of each school includes the joint comparison library and the intra-school dissertation library. Therefore, the test results in the individual duplication checking system may be inconsistent with the test results of the graduate training management institution (graduate school). Exactly.
The person in charge also told reporters that CNKI will also launch new personal review service products for scientific research integrity education, academic standard training and scientific research writing ability improvement, so as to better serve the academic growth and development of individuals and promote the construction of academic integrity. .
Academic Integrity Code
Still need to build
CNKI has opened the personal duplication check service, which to a certain extent provides an academic testing channel for the majority of users.However, CNKI also stated that it is still prudent that the duplicate checking system is a computer software service tool. Its main function is to provide clues to suspected plagiarism, plagiarism, multiple submissions for one manuscript, etc. through the analysis of text repetition, and to assist in the discovery of literature. Innovation, and promote the protection of original achievements of documents.The advantage of the computer software system is that it can provide paper reviewers with a number and speed of comparisons that cannot be achieved by humans through intelligent algorithms based on massive academic literature, preventing missed inspections and missed inspections, and has played a certain auxiliary role in curbing academic misconduct. ."However, we cannot simply use the test results of the duplication checking system to replace the role of peer reviewers such as supervisors, dissertation defense committees, academic committees, reviewers, etc., to check the academic level and academic standardization."
"In terms of the mentor's guidance, it is necessary to reposition and return. To play the role of a mentor, the ideological and constructive nature of the thesis topic selection cannot be replaced by any technical means, and the joint role of people and technology must be brought into play. The website provides more inclusive services, taking into account both public welfare and marketability, and serves academia, university research institutes and students.” The person in charge of a graduate school in a university pointed out that academic integrity standards still need to be built by multiple parties, hoping to achieve multiple Win-win situation and jointly realize the sound development of academic ecology.
The relevant person in charge of CNKI stated that to solve and curb academic misconduct, it is necessary to establish an academic governance system involving all parties, and comprehensively manage it through policy guidance, system construction, scientific research integrity education, and academic standard training. The paper duplication checking service is more humanized and standardized, so as to ensure the basic quality of academic papers and scientific research results.The most important thing is that individuals need to build the ideological foundation of scientific research integrity from the perspective of ideological cognition, and consciously prevent all kinds of academic misconduct in scientific research activities.
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Liang
