WRITING, CITATION & PUBLISHING · STAGE 3–4 · WRITE AND REFINE
Turnitin
Institutional similarity checker used by universities and journals to review manuscripts for matched text and AI-generated content before submission.
How it can support an SLR
Use this tool to organise references, improve a draft, or prepare the manuscript. Keep every claim traceable to the included studies. Citation managers store and format references; they do not verify that a citation supports a claim.
Access and features
Open the provider’s official website to check current access, sign-in requirements, institutional availability, and product features. The tool is introduced here through its SLR-relevant purpose; availability and interfaces may change.
Hands-on practice
- Choose one task from your current SLR Stage and open the tool’s official site.
- Use a narrow, non-sensitive example: a research question, one verified seed article, or an approved sample record.
- Try the tool’s relevant search, organisation, analysis, writing or visualisation feature.
- Compare the result with the original article, database record, review protocol or source data.
- Decide what to keep, revise or reject, then record the decision in the relevant Stage worksheet.
Verification: Do not treat generated summaries, citations or recommendations as verified evidence. Check the original publication and retain your own methodological decisions.
What to record in your SLR
- Tool name and task performed
- Search query, prompt, seed paper or input dataset, where relevant
- Date used and key result or output
- How the result was verified and what you accepted, changed or rejected
Do not report a database search or a screening decision unless you actually performed and documented it.