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Livestock Systems, Management and Environment

Buffalo welfare: a literature review from 1992 to 2023 with a text mining and topic analysis approach

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Pages 570-584 | Received 07 Feb 2024, Accepted 18 Mar 2024, Published online: 15 Apr 2024

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