AI Tools from Clarivate
RefWorks: Plagiarism and AI content checker
The Plagiarism and AI content checker "uses machine learning and natural language processing to compare submitted content with a large database of online sources."
"Plagiarism and AI content checker" is available in: RefWorks
The tool checks for plagiarized and AI-generated content in documents submitted by the user. This tool is currently available as a pilot program, and may or may not continue in the future. Users are limited to 10,000 words per month.
- Access the tool from the "Tools" menu in RefWorks.
The tool can also be accessed via the RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) menu in Word (first, on the left) and Google Docs (second, on the right).
From the home screen of the tool, simply upload the document that you wish to check for plagiarism or AI-generated content.
The results screen will first show any "matched text" that the tool found in its database.
Click on the "AI content" tab to see the tool's estimate of how much content was AI-generated.
More information and FAQ on the Plagiarism and AI content checker
Under the Hood
What powers Clarivate's AI tools?
RefWorks’ “plagiarism and AI content checker” is powered by Copyleaks, an advanced online detection platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to compare submitted text with a vast database of web pages, academic sources, and AI-generated content. Copyleaks’ technology includes specialized algorithms to detect paraphrasing, duplicate text, and content likely generated by AI systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, across 30+ languages. The tool operates as a cloud-based service, providing detailed analysis with explainable indicators for both originality and AI generation, but does not rely on a single public large language model; instead, it trains its proprietary models to identify patterns unique to machine-generated text.
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