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. 2025 Jan;152(1):1-5.
doi: 10.1017/S0031182025000125.

What's so special about special issues: Highlighting a central role of parasitology to support specific innovations and advance progress within our discipline

John Ellis  1 , Cinzia Cantacessi  2 , J Russell Stothard  3
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What's so special about special issues: Highlighting a central role of parasitology to support specific innovations and advance progress within our discipline

John Ellis et al. Parasitology. 2025 Jan.
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Keywords: academic publishing; editorial integrity; guest editors; open access; special issues.

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Flow diagram showing the broad considerations behind publishing a special issue in Parasitology.
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Figure 2.
Front covers of four special issues: (A) XXXII congress of the Italian society for parasitology; (B) avian malaria; (C) fish parasitology; (D) mucosal microbial eukaryotes in health and disease.
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