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An increase in retractions of research publications is an issue for Medical Physics
Clive Baldock1, Parminder S Basran2, Habib Zaidi
1Research and Innovation Division, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia.
Medical Physics
|October 24, 2020
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