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Publishing in Scientific Journals

and revealed misconduct in two publications on this topic (Cyranoski,
2014) Alan Trounson said that “Reputation in science is everything.
Once gone, it’s extremely hard to get back.” Cyranoski added that this
statement applies not only to individual scientists, but also to journals
and institutions. Besides this, retractions also lead to a substantive mone-
tary loss to the science system. Concrete figures can be found in Stern
et al. (2014).
Martin (2013) published a statement about all forms of distorted
reporting while Zhang (2016) provides an excellent guide on plagiarism
and all related problems.