Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-23-2014
Special issue:
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-23-2014
AGORA: Ideas and Concepts
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24 Jun 2014
AGORA: Ideas and Concepts |  | 24 Jun 2014

Meta-analyses and the "editorial love of controversy"

R. H. Heleno

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