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How many papers are just duplicates?

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Study hints at plagiarism and re-publication in biomedical papers.

As many as 200,000 of the 17 million articles in the Medline database might be duplicates, either plagiarized or republished by the same author in different journals, according to a commentary published in Nature today1.

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  1. Errami, M. & Garner, H. Nature 451, 397-399 (2008).

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Butler, D. How many papers are just duplicates?. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.520

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