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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”

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The source

Hole Transport in Pentacene Single Crystals

Jan Hendrik Schon, Christian Kloc, Bertram Batlogg
Physical Review B · published May 2001 · cited 31 times by other papers

Retracted Dec 20, 2002

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Where Wikipedia cites it

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