What do the colored flags next to each similarity score indicate?
Turnitin assigns a colored flag to each Similarity Report. These flag colors indicate the following:
- Blue: No matching text
- Green: One word to 24% matching text
- Yellow: 25-49% matching text
- Orange: 50-74% matching text
- Red: 75-100% matching text
Faculty are strongly encouraged to review Similarity Reports in detail, rather than relying entirely on similarity scores. Although a blue flag indicates a very low possibility of plagiarism, and a red flag indicates a very high possibility of plagiarism, Turnitin Similarity Reports may potentially include “false positives,” where common phrases or quoted materials are misidentified as possible incidents of academic misconduct.