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Science publishing: The trouble with retractions

A surge in withdrawn papers is highlighting weaknesses in the system for handling them.

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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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