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The Papers That Most Heavily Cite Retracted Studies
Data from giant project show how withdrawn research propagates through the literature. Nature: In January, a review paper about ways to detect human illnesses by examining the eye appeared in a conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New Yo...
Nature: In January, a review paper about ways to detect human illnesses by examining the eye appeared in a conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New York City. The project's creator, computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac at the University of Toulouse in France, shared his data with Nature's news team, which analysed it to find the papers that most heavily cite retracted work yet haven't themselves been withdrawn. He hopes that his latest detector, which he has been developing over the past two years and describes this week in a Comment article in Nature, will provide another way to stop bad research propagating through the scientific literature -- some of it fake work created by 'papermill' firms.
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