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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Field-induced superconductivity in a spin-ladder cuprate
Jan Hendrik Schon, M Dorget, F C Beuran, X Z Xu et al.
Science · published September 2001 · cited 27 times by other papers
Retracted May 2, 2003
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Where Wikipedia cites it
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