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Parija, S.C., Kate, V. (2017). Why Write a Scientific Research Paper. In: Parija, S., Kate, V. (eds) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_1

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