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Assessment of retracted papers, and their retraction notices, from a cancer journal associated with “paper mills” Cover

Assessment of retracted papers, and their retraction notices, from a cancer journal associated with “paper mills”

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|Jun 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2023-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 118 - 125
Submitted on: Feb 2, 2023
Accepted on: Mar 29, 2023
Published on: Jun 7, 2023
Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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