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How the Leopard Gets its Spots
Overview
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Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
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Citations
Cited by
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Human brain networks function in connectome-specific harmonic waves
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Spatial pattern formation in chemical and biological systems
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Harmonic brain modes: a unifying framework for linking space and time in brain dynamics
Atasoy, S., Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L., & Pearson, J. (2018) · The Neuroscientist · doi:10.1177/1073858417728032 · Cited by 124
Metadata
- Authors
- Murray, J. D.
- Venue
- Scientific American
- Published
- 1988-03
- Volume
- 258
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 80-87
- ISSN
- 0036-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2083433101
- Cited by
- 237
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 6.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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How to cite
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- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: How the Leopard Gets its Spots. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1038/scientificamerican0388-80
- The paper
- Murray, J. D. (1988). How the Leopard Gets its Spots. Scientific American. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0388-80
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
