Retracted COVID-19 articles: a side-effect of the hot race to publication

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental Implants Research Center, Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Department of Head, Neck and Sense Organs, School of Dentistry, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

Parisa Soltani et al. Scientometrics. 2020.

. 2020;125(1):819-822.

doi: 10.1007/s11192-020-03661-9. Epub 2020 Aug 5.

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental Implants Research Center, Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Department of Head, Neck and Sense Organs, School of Dentistry, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

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