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Tackling overpublishing by moving to open-ended papers

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Akbashev, A.R., Kalinin, S.V. Tackling overpublishing by moving to open-ended papers. Nat. Mater. 22, 270–271 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01489-1

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