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Figure 2From “What peer review deleted, the web kept.”

Three questions before a research figure enters a decision

The third column is the one that comes back blank. Blank there means the figure is travelling on reputation.

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Figure 2Three questions before a research figure enters a decision

A four-row worksheet for checking a research figure before using it: the figure exactly as given, what was cited for it, whether a published version of the paper exists, and whether the number survives in that published version.The figure, as you weregiven itVerbatim, includingdecimals.What was cited for itA DOI, or something else?Name it.Is there a publishedversion?Search the title. Journal,year, DOI.Does the numbersurvive?Same, revised, orgone.A decimal place is a claim, and it needs its own provenance. If the figure came from a preprint and apublished version exists, the published one is the finding, and the difference between them is the thing

Source: Author's own worksheet.

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Isoglu, S. (2026). Three questions before a research figure enters a decision [Figure]. isoglu.com. https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-peer-review-deleted-fig02/

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@misc{isoglu-2026-what-peer-review-deleted-fig02,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{Three questions before a research figure enters a decision}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Figure 2, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-peer-review-deleted-fig02/},
  note = {From the essay {What peer review deleted, the web kept.}}
}
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