diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkPropagateRelation.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkPropagateRelation.java
index 34611db8e..2d18c9a61 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkPropagateRelation.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkPropagateRelation.java
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ public class SparkPropagateRelation extends AbstractSparkAction {
 			FieldType.TARGET,
 			getDeletedFn());
 
-		save(newRels.union(updated), outputRelationPath, SaveMode.Overwrite);
+		save(newRels.union(updated).union(mergeRels), outputRelationPath, SaveMode.Overwrite);
 	}
 
 	private static Dataset<Relation> processDataset(
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkDedupTest.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkDedupTest.java
index a0ae7bc3c..990ac04c0 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkDedupTest.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkDedupTest.java
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ public class SparkDedupTest implements Serializable {
 
 		long relations = jsc.textFile(testDedupGraphBasePath + "/relation").count();
 
-		assertEquals(826, relations);
+		assertEquals(5022, relations);
 
 		// check deletedbyinference
 		final Dataset<Relation> mergeRels = spark