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25 April 2016
The original story mischaracterized Enrico Bucci’s survey by implying he had looked at all biomedical papers authored by Italian scientists. In fact, his probe was limited to gel images in papers authored by Italian scientists who had been co-authors at least three times with authors of retractions. The text has been corrected to reflect this.
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Baker, M. Problematic images found in 4% of biomedical papers. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.19802
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