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This open-access statistical research package examines longitudinal patterns across approximately 87.24 million anonymized document checks processed between 2018 and 2025.

The resource includes a main trends report, a 2025 country appendix covering 218 country and territory entries, and a longitudinal country-level report. It may support graduate-level teaching, professional development, and discussion related to academic integrity, text-similarity indicators, educational data interpretation, and the limitations of cross-country and platform-based datasets.

The findings describe patterns within documents submitted through one platform. They should not be interpreted as national plagiarism prevalence, the percentage of students or authors who committed misconduct, or proof of confirmed plagiarism.

This is an industry research report and has not undergone formal academic peer review. The materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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