Our new bibliometric study reveals how a tiny typographic error, confusing the German Eszett (ß) with the Greek beta (β), has created hundreds of false positives like ß-catenin and ß-glucuronidase in major databases:
https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2025-0222
Even leading journals weren’t immune. The paper highlights how small linguistic mistakes can undermine metadata quality and scientific search precision.
A bibliometric assessment of the incidence of
Eszett
(ẞ; ß)-catenin and
Eszett
(ẞ; ß)-glucuronidase in the indexed literature
