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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Mobile Iodine Dopants in Organic Semiconductors
Jan Hendrik Schön, Christian Kloc, Bertram Batlogg
Physical Review B · published April 2000 · cited 3 times by other papers
Retracted Dec 23, 2002
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