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Editorial
. 2019 May;597(10):2593-2594.
doi: 10.1113/JP277847.

Misleading with citation statistics?

Laura Bennet  1 , David A Eisner  2 , Alistair Jan Gunn  1
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Editorial

Misleading with citation statistics?

Laura Bennet et al. J Physiol. 2019 May.
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