Beuy Joob,; Viroj Wiwanitkit,

doi:10.5935/0004-2749.20140034

Sir, the article on "plagiarism and misconduct in research"⁽¹⁾ is very interesting. Chamon reported the use of the computational tool for help detect the plagiarism⁽¹⁾. In fact, the detection of plagiarism in submitted manuscript should be the requirement for all biomedical journals. The pre-submission screening should be encouraged for all contributors⁽²⁾. Of interest, although there are several attempts the problems can still be detected. The use of computational tool might be a solution but it still has the limitations. First, the computational program might not be possible to detect the problem of figure plagiarism as well as conceptual plagiarism⁽³⁾, which are also common problems in the present day. Second, when the problem is detected and reported, the response and action from the plagiarist's institute might not appropriate⁽⁴⁾. As Chamon mentioned for "where we are and what we can do"⁽¹⁾, it seems that it is still a long way to successfully manage the problem. Re-evaluation on the success of the implementation of the computation tool for detection of plagiarism should be continuously done.