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Case 10 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. R...

A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer different questions. Record the report’s own definition and units before comparing ...

Method note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: use “Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion…” as...

Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: “Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them…” ...

Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source reference. For a publisher notice, link the notice as well as the origi...

Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation. A conversion or interpretation needs a documented basis; it should not silently...

Case 31 — A correction log for an archive article · source wording exercise A transcription error changes the units in a figure caption. How should th...

Case 22 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Two figures use different units and one axis is logarithmic. How should a comparison be d...