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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Electrical Properties of Single Crystals of Rigid Rodlike Conjugated Molecules
Jan Hendrik Schon, Christian Kloc, R A Laudise, Bertram Batlogg
Physical Review B · published December 2002 · cited 80 times by other papers
Retracted Dec 20, 2012
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Where Wikipedia cites it
- Schön scandal5,277 views a month · open since Nov 5Zombie
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- FoundFound on Schön scandal: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
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