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In this chapter, we discuss whether the seeming increase in the amount of misconduct in science is a real phenomenon, and how the structures and processes of scientific publishing, as well as of the scientific community, may contribute to this.
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Marcus, A., Oransky, I. (2018). What’s Responsible for the Retraction Boom?. In: Dobrick, F., Fischer, J., Hagen, L. (eds) Research Ethics in the Digital Age. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12909-5_3
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