Journal hijacking: A new challenge for medical scientific community

Dental Hypotheses

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-5

  Kolahi, Jafar ^a   Khazaei, Saber ^b  

^a Dental Hypotheses   (Iran)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hijack; journal; scientific community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923094155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21558213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2155-8213.150858     Document Type: Article

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