Predatory Journals: What are they?

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  • Ashok Shyam
چکیده

Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports | pISSN 2250-0685 | eISSN | Available on www.jocr.co.in | doi: 2321-3817 10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.330 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Predatory Journals: What are they?

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دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015