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Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.

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How often do people find mistakes in papers and not tell anyone?

I found a significant error in a paper with 1000 citations. My advisor agreed that it is a significant error, but discouraged me from telling the author. It occurred to me that maybe other graduate …
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