Zombie Facts Vol. 1 · —Retraction Watch × English Wikipedia
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The paper was retracted. The fact kept walking. These are the sentences on Wikipedia, read by hundreds of thousands of people a month, that still rest on research its own journal has retracted.

—Zombie citations live on Wikipedia
—Articles affected
—Monthly readers of those articles
—Retracted papers checked
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The most-read zombies

Ranked by how many people a month read the Wikipedia articles where a retracted paper is still cited with no warning nearby. The highlighted words are what Wikipedia says right now.

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