Spektrum der Wissenschaft Highlights Our Research on the Future of Plagiarism Detection

How can science uphold integrity in an era where large language models (LLMs) can seamlessly disguise stolen ideas? The renowned journal Spektrum der Wissenschaft explores this question in its recent article “Das Katz-und-Maus-Spiel um die Redlichkeit” (“Cat-and-Mouse Game with Integrity”). The piece features our latest research on tackling the evolving challenges of plagiarism detection in a digital world with [...]

2025-09-23T15:59:04+02:00September 17th, 2025|
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NDR Synapsen Podcast with Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke

Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke recently appeared on the ''Synapsen'' Science Podcast by NDR Info. Alternatively, you can listen to it on the NDR website. The topic of the episode was: Keine Angst vor Künstlicher Intelligenz? The podcast broadly looked at recent AI developments and discussed their ethical implications and the consequences for education, research, and society.  

2024-01-13T14:26:51+01:00July 17th, 2023|
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Norman Meuschke receives the Airbus Research Award Claude Dornier

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Norman Meuschke was awarded this year’s Airbus Research Award ‘Claude Dornier’ for his outstanding research achievements during his Ph.D. research. The award ceremony took place on July 14th, 2022, at the University of Konstanz. Norman defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Analyzing Non-Textual Content Elements to Detect Academic Plagiarism” summa cum laude on March [...]

2025-09-09T00:55:58+02:00August 2nd, 2022|
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Newspaper FAZ reports on our research to detect and deter academic plagiarism

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) describes how our research on novel plagiarism detection methods and blockchain-backed decentralized trusted timestamping facilitates combating plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. Read the article on the FAZ website or here (click on the article to enlarge):

2024-01-16T04:31:06+01:00October 18th, 2020|
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Editorial for the KlarText Award reports on our research on plagiarism detection and trusted timestamping

The KlarText Award recognizes excellent achievements in understandably communicating scientific findings to a general audience. The editorial for the KlarText Award 2020 discusses the longstanding problem of plagiarism and fraud in academia and presents our research on plagiarism detection and decentralized trusted timestamping as promising steps towards a solution.   Read the article (in German): Online  |  as a PDF

2022-06-20T10:21:59+02:00October 13th, 2020|
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Funding approved for 3-year research project by the DFG (German Research Foundation)

We are happy to announce that the DFG (German Research Foundation), has awarded our group a research grant for our project: “Analyzing Mathematics to Detect Disguised Academic Plagiarism”. The total funding sum of 633,000 Euro will be made available over a 3-year period to both Bela Gipp’s DKE Group at the University of Wuppertal and to Dr. Moritz Schubotz, a former DKE group member, now working [...]

2024-08-19T21:30:04+02:00July 11th, 2020|
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Newspaper WZ reports on our plagiarism detection system HyPlag

The Westdeutsche Zeitung interviewed our group member Norman Meuschke about HyPlag and our other efforts to aid in the prevention and detection of academic plagiarism. Read the report (in German).

2022-03-28T16:38:50+02:00February 13th, 2020|
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