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Does Your Law Review's Cite-Checking Process Include Retraction Checking for Cited Scientific Articles?
It's analogous to checking whether a case has been overruled, or whether a statute has been repealed.
The UCLA Law Library has a new guide by librarian Lynn McClelland with recommendations on that, Understanding Scholarly Metrics and Retractions for Law Students. Let me know, please, what law reviews that you've worked with have done along these lines.
Likewise, if your law firm often cites scientific articles (social, physical, medical, or otherwise), please let me know if you have a procedure for checking whether there the cited articles have been retracted.
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