ArticleLife science alliance2022
Identification of human gene research articles with wrongly identified nucleotide sequences.
Article in Life science alliance, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Nucleotide sequence reagents underpin molecular techniques that have been applied across hundreds of thousands of publications. We have previously reported wrongly identified nucleotide sequence reagents in human research publications and described a semi-automated screening tool Seek & Blastn to fact-check their claimed status. We applied Seek & Blastn to screen >11,700 publications across five literature corpora, including all original publications in
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