2020
DOI: 10.1186/s13005-020-00220-8
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From honest mistakes to fake news – approaches to correcting the scientific literature

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“…The fact that publications contaminated by errors coexist with their healthy counterparts in different databases, and in the worst-case scenario, multiply in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, is well recognized [13]. And this is just what has happened in the paper addressed within this comment.…”
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confidence: 78%
“…The fact that publications contaminated by errors coexist with their healthy counterparts in different databases, and in the worst-case scenario, multiply in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, is well recognized [13]. And this is just what has happened in the paper addressed within this comment.…”
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confidence: 78%
“…A rise in plagiarism detection can be attributed to widespread access to plagiarism software and the pressure for authors to publish. Plagiarised articles, when included in meta-analyses, are also an issue, as they artificially skew results and bias the pooled estimates (Brainard & You, 2018;Kharasch, 2021;Stamm, 2020).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This has resulted in a large body of open access knowledge being available today. However, the vast amount of data sometimes dilutes the true and effective information among the merely false and worthless [5,6]. Expert support is therefore essential if some form of scientific knowledge is to be applied to a given context, in order to reduce uncertainty.…”
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confidence: 99%