Why do some retracted papers continue to be cited?

Scientometrics

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 365-370

  Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^a   Bornemann Cimenti, Helmar ^b  

^a Miki cho Post Office   (Japan)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Citations; COPE; Eric Poehlman; PubMed; Scott Reuben

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994745685     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2178-9     Document Type: Letter

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