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Editorial board publication strategy and acceptance rates in Turkish national journals

By: Lokman Tutuncu  
Open Access
|Aug 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2023-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
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