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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Conjugation Length Dependence of the Charge Transport in Oligothiophene Single Crystals
Jan Hendrik Schon, Christian Kloc, D Fichou, Bertram Batlogg
Physical Review B · published June 2001 · cited 7 times by other papers
Retracted Dec 23, 2002
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Where Wikipedia cites it
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