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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Low-temperature Transport in High-mobility Polycrystalline Pentacene Field-effect Transistors
Jan Hendrik Schon, Christian Kloc, Bertram Batlogg
Physical Review B · published March 2001 · cited 9 times by other papers
Retracted Dec 23, 2002
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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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