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Widespread Use of Misidentified Cell Line KB (HeLa): Incorrect Attribution and Its Impact Revealed through Mining the Scientific Literature

Liwen Vaughan, Wolfgang Glänzel, Christopher Korch and Amanda Capes-Davis
Liwen Vaughan
1Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Wolfgang Glänzel
2Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of MSI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
3Department of Science Policy & Scientometrics, LHAS, Budapest, Hungary.
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Christopher Korch
4Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado.
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Amanda Capes-Davis
5CellBank Australia, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
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DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-2258 Published June 2017
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    A, Distribution and ratio of articles that described KB cells correctly and incorrectly in the period 2000 to 2014. B, Distribution and normalized ratio of articles citing the original KB Correct and KB Incorrect articles between 2002 and 2015. (Data sourced from Thomson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection.)

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Liwen Vaughan, Wolfgang Glänzel, Christopher Korch and Amanda Capes-Davis
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