Hijacked journals are attacking the reliability and validity of medical research
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Additional Information for citing this article: Title of Journal: Electronic physician; Abbreviated title of journal: Electron. Physician doi: 10.14661/2014.925-926 Editorial information: Published: November.27. 2014 © 2014 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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