An unpleasant surprise awaited scientists who surveyed 1,035 journal articles to prepare a review about a test commonly carried out on rats. Credit: Oleksandr Bushko/Alamy
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Nature 628, 242-243 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00875-2
Updates & Corrections
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Correction 09 April 2024: An earlier version of the standfirst of this story misstated the percentage of papers that were found by the authors to have troubling images.
References
Berrio, J. P., Hestevhave, S. & Kalliokoski, O. Transl. Psychiatry 14, 39 (2024).
Berrio, J. P. & Kalliokoski, O. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.13.580196 (2024).
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