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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2020; 19(02): 177-178
DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_95_19
Letter to Editor

Obsessional pursuit for high-impact factor

Deepak Juyal
Department of Microbiology, Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
,
Benu Dhawan
1   Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
,
Vijay Thawani
2   Department of Pharmacology, People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Eingereicht: 26. Dezember 2019

Angenommen: 29. Januar 2019

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19. April 2022

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