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Richard Van Noorden is an assistant news editor for Nature in London. For more analysis of retraction statistics, click here .
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Van Noorden, R. Science publishing: The trouble with retractions. Nature 478, 26–28 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/478026a
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