Subject Guides: iThenticate: Report Modes

Report Modes

The document viewer can be viewed in four different modes. These modes allow you to view and sort the information contained in the Similarity Report to best suit your needs. The four modes for viewing a Similarity Report are:

Match Overview: (show highest matches together): A list of all areas of the paper that have similarities to information in the selected search repositories. Matches are color-coded and listed from highest to lowest percentage of matching word area to the submission. Only the top or best matches are shown, all underlying matches are visible in the Match Breakdown and All Sources modes.

All Sources: Allows a user to view matches between the paper and a specifically selected source in the content repositories. Contains a full list of all matches found rather than the best matches per area of similarity. This listing is exhaustive but will show all matches found, including any that are obscured in the Match Overview by being in the same or similar areas as other, better matches.

Match Breakdown: Displays matches that are obscured by a top source. Allows users to compare the match instance of an underlying source with the match instance for a top source.
Side By Side Comparison: An in-depth view that shows a document’s match compared side by side with the original source content from the content repositories.

Match Overview Mode

Match Overview

The default viewing mode is the Match Overview (the view mode icon on the left). This is a simple view that shows the similarity percentage for a single resource.

Viewing Live Web Pages for a Source

If a source is available on the internet users can open that source in a new browser.

To access a source website within Match Overview, select the colored number at the start of a piece of highlighted text on the paper text. A source box will appear on the document text showing the similar content highlighted within a snippet of the text from the repository source. The source website will be in blue above the source snippet. Select the link to open the site in a new browser.

Some internet sources may no longer be live, and access to others may be restricted by subscription.

All Sources Mode

All Sources

To change the view mode for a Similarity Report to the All Sources view, click on the All Sources icon (the view mode icon on the right). The sidebar will automatically update to the All Sources view mode. This is a simple view that shows the similarity percentage for all sources.

Viewing Live Web Pages for a Source

If a source is available on the internet users can open that source in a new browser.

To access a source website within the All Sources mode select the source you want to view the website for and a diagonal icon will appear to the right of the source. Select this to open the source website in a new browser window.

Some internet sources may no longer be live, and access to others may be restricted by subscription.

Match Breakdown Mode

In some cases, matches to smaller instances of similarity may be obscured by larger matches and not shown in this view mode. To find the underlying sources, hover over the match you would like to view the underlying sources for and select the arrow icon that appears.

In this mode, all sources that are obscured by the selected top source are listed below that source. Select a source to highlight the matching text on the paper text.

A source box will appear on the document, revealing where in the source the text has been identified. The highlight color for the top source match will become lighter and the matched text of the underlying source will be displayed with a darker highlight.

Viewing Live Web Pages for a Source

If a source is available on the internet users can open that source in a new browser.

To access a source website within the Match Breakdown mode select the source you want to view the website for and a diagonal icon will appear to the right of the source. Select this to open the source website in a new browser window.

Some internet sources may no longer be live, and access to others may be restricted by subscription.

Side by Side Comparison

Side by side comparison allows you to compare matching text within a document to the source of the match in the content repositories. In All Sources when you select a source from the sources panel, a source box will appear on the document text showing the similar content highlighted within a snippet of the text from the repository source. In Match Overview, select the colored number at the start of the highlighted text to open this source box. The source box provides the matching text within the context of a few outlying sentences from the repository source.

To view the entire repository source, select the Full Source View link. This opens the repository source in the sources panel and contains the full text of the source and all the matching instances.

The source’s full text will be displayed in the sidebar with each matching instance to the document highlighted in red. Click on the source title/URL to open up the original source in a web page.

If there are multiple matches to this source, select the arrow icons to quickly navigate through the match instances

Select the x icon in the top right corner of the full source text panel to close it.

If a source is from a restricted or membership only repository (for example, Crossref), then you will be unable to view the full source text in a side by side comparison. You will still be able to see the source box snippet for context.