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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Stegodyphus dumicola”
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Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola
Colin M Wright, Carl N Keiser, Jonathan N Pruitt
Animal Behaviour · published May 2015 · cited 42 times by other papers
Retracted Sep 20, 2023
Duplication of DataSalami Slicing
Where Wikipedia cites it
- Stegodyphus dumicola1,260 views a month · open since Nov 5 · editors toldZombie
Case log
- FoundFound on Stegodyphus dumicola: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
- ReviewedRead by hand (Stegodyphus dumicola). Animal Behaviour retracted this paper in 2023 over duplicated data; it is one of the Jonathan Pruitt papers withdrawn during the misconduct investigation into his lab.
- Note postedNote posted on the talk page of Stegodyphus dumicola. See the note.
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