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Feet of Clay Detector

(more on the origin of the metaphor)

These papers may be unreliable as they cite 1+ retracted/removed/withdrawn reference spotted by the Annulled Detector.

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⏰ Last Update: 2025-06-13 at 08:49

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πŸ“„ Cabanac, G. (2024). Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature [Comment].
Nature. 632(8027), 977-979. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02747-1. See also the companion article by Naddaf & Van Noorden (2024).

πŸ“„ GraΓ±a Possamai, C., Cabanac, G., Perrodeau, E., Ghosn, L., Ravaud, P., & Boutron, I. (2025). Inclusion of Retracted Studies in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Interventions.
JAMA Internal Medicine. 185(6), 702. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0256.

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