Michelle Francl suggests that self-plagiarism is a misleading term and that repeating yourself in publications isn't always a bad thing.
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Francl, M. Attack of the clones. Nature Chem 6, 267–268 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1906
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