Here are some simple some tools for examining papers.

Pictures

Copy/move clone detection in pictures: There is no single button solution. To extract the pictures I use unar (“brew install unar”) which preserves much more detail than a screenshot. As web-based solution Forensically is preferable (alternatives are Fotoforensics and Reveal). As a local version, I think Sherloq has most potential if you don’t want to fiddle around with exiftool.

Maybe there are also situations where individual color adjustments are needed. I have a local version of Affinity here but there is also super nice web-based tool called Minipaint.

Text

For text plagiarism check, it probably needs some paid service: docoloc, Plagscan or Turnitin (services compared …) if don’t want to copy/paste text blocks into Google Search.

Translation: Deepl

For text comparison I used BBEdit earlier while also the Atom/split-diff plugin is suitable (as an online solution simtext) while for PDF comparison I suggest Copyleaks.

 

Statistics

Current software developments to scan manuscripts for statistical issues: Barzooka (Nico Riedel), SciScore (Michèle Nuijten), Grim Test (Nicholas Brown) among others.

 

Misc

A short history of detecting image forgery can be found at the Zwelling blog and an introduction into the theory in a paper by Hany Farid or his book “Fake Photos“. A recent interview with Elisabeth Bik gives further details.

PubPeer is the place where the results should be deposited.

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