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2. The publication of research results in scientific journals is presently interpreted as the end product or research in a final and public form, and the nature of the information contained in the scientific journal is both formal and repository. Nonetheless, scientists continue to submit manuscripts for publications although their motivation might be more linked to the present reward systems of competitive science than to the desire for communication. For more information on this seeJ. R. Ravetz,Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971, p. 282.
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