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This work was supported by the China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201406090164).

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Study conception and design: BN, KD, NY, NS; Data acquisition: NY; Data analysis and interpretation: NY, NS, BN, KD; Drafting of manuscript: NY; Manuscript revisions: NS, BN, KD.

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    Nannan Yi, Benoit Nemery & Kris Dierickx

  2. Sinology, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

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Yi, N., Standaert, N., Nemery, B. et al. Research integrity in China: precautions when searching the Chinese literature. Scientometrics 110, 1011–1016 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2191-z

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