вирусная хохма про цитаты оказалась не уткой.
действительно, есть публикация. once an error gets into print it will live on and on in libraries carefully catalogued, scrupulously indexed
что более важно:
Using statistical modeling of recurring identical misprints in bibliographic entries, two UCLA engineers
estimate that "only about 20 percent of citers read the original" article that they claim as a source in their own reference lists. Stated otherwise, 80 percent of citers are not readers, and the secondary flaws they encounter they themselves propagate in their own articles.