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. 2022 Jul;364(1):127-128.
doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.01.014. Epub 2022 Feb 2.

COVID-19 article retractions in journals indexed in PubMed

Christopher J Peterson  1 , Robert Alexander  2 , Kenneth Nugent  2
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COVID-19 article retractions in journals indexed in PubMed

Christopher J Peterson et al. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Jul.
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