Changing the language of medical journals from Persian to English for the purpose of obtaining index: good or bad!

Document Type : Editorial

Authors

1 Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences

2 Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Editorial

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