Wendering, Leonard
Ratkovic, Marc
Gschwend, Thomas
Schoenenberger, Henning
Scaplehorn, Niki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität Mannheim
Springer Nature
Article History
Received: 1 September 2025
Accepted: 15 October 2025
First Online: 11 November 2025
Competing interests
: Henning Schoenenberger and Niki Scaplehorn are employees of Springer Nature. They have no participation in any editorial processes. All other authors declare no competing interests.
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