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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”

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The source

Universal crossover from band to hopping conduction in molecular organic semiconductors

Jan Hendrik Schön, Christian Kloc, Bertram Batlogg
Physical Review Letters · published April 2001 · cited 63 times by other papers

Retracted Dec 27, 2002

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Where Wikipedia cites it

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