Falsified papers in high-impact journals were slow to retract and indistinguishable from nonfraudulent papers
Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyPublished 4 April 2008Open access
Nikolaos A. Trikalinos, Εvangelos Εvangelou, John P. A. Ioannidis
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Retractions due to falsification can take a long time, especially when senior researchers are implicated, and fraudulent articles are not obviously distinguishable from nonfraudulent ones.
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Retractions due to falsification can take a long time, especially when senior researchers are implicated. Fraudulent articles are not obviously distinguishable from nonfraudulent ones.
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