Plagiarism in articles published in journals indexed in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL): a comparative analysis between 2013 and 2018

Table 3 Parameter for judging whether a phrase is a verbatim copy

Sentence fragment	Number of pages found with the given fragment found by Google
“A chance de um ser humano criar”^a	0
“A chance de um ser humano”	7
“A chance de um ser”	35
“A chance de um”	19,3000
“A chance de”	956,000
“A chance”	259,000,000

Source: Saraiva and Carrieri (2009, p. 162)
^aSince the search was conducted in Portuguese, the words in Portuguese were kept according to the original source. The sentence refers to the first part of the quote: “the chances of a human creating…”

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