The types of documents that China HowNet can retrieve are as follows.

There are periodicals, dissertations, conference papers, patent documents, newspapers, yearbooks, reference books, etc. According to the query hownet official website. The detection of academic misconduct mainly comes from 5300 core journals and professional journals published in China. For any document that needs to be detected, the system first carries out hierarchical processing, and creates fingerprints according to chapters, paragraphs, sentences and other levels, and the comparison documents in the comparison resource database are also created by the same technology.