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Researchers have finally created a tool to spot duplicated images across thousands of papers

Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.
  1. Declan Butler
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Computer software can now quickly detect duplicate images across large swathes of the research literature, three scientists say.

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Nature 555, 18 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02421-3

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  • Update 26 February 2018: This article has been updated to include the reason why the algorithm is not being made public.

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  1. Acuna, D. E., Brookes, P. S. & Kording, K. P. preprint at bioRxiv http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/269415 (2018).

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