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Politics of Knowledge Production and Collaborations

Reimagining authorship guidelines to promote equity in co-produced academic collaborations

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Pages 2547-2559 | Received 08 Mar 2021, Accepted 06 Aug 2021, Published online: 14 Sep 2021

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