Top-cited works about exercise for knee osteoarthritis: a bibliometric analysis from 2000 to 2021

Z-H Yu1, Z-Y Hu, Z-J Fan

  • 1College of Kinesiology, Shenyang Sport University, Shenyang, China. myb-sreha@ccmu.edu.cn.

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