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It would be good if people would universally use any of the extant tools for citation management. It’s not a problem in CS and associated disciplines but in the humanities and social sciences a shockingly large number of researchers don’t use tools like Zotero and Mendeley. They just keep notes and copy/paste entries in a bibliography.

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Can you expand how that would help with this problem? In my understanding the tools used to write a paper are completely hidden and non-consequential once a paper is published, no?

I don't know about the others, but Zotero automatically informs me of retractions for articles in my database: https://www.zotero.org/blog/retracted-item-notifications/

So, if a previous article is retracted when I write my own article, I'd probably know.

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