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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”

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The source

A light-emitting field-effect transistor

Jan Hendrik Schon, Ananth Dodabalapur, Christian Kloc, Bertram Batlogg
Science · published November 2000 · cited 97 times by other papers

Retracted Nov 1, 2002

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Where Wikipedia cites it

  1. Schön scandal5,277 views a month · open since Nov 5
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  1. FoundFound on Schön scandal: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.

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