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Institute for Scientific Information-indexed biomedical journals of Saudi Arabia

Their performance from 2007-2014

Dileep K. Rohra, Vikram K. Rohra and Peter Cahusac
Saudi Medical Journal November 2016, 37 (11) 1251-1257; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.11.15740

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