An empirical evaluation of the editorial practices of social work journals: Voices of authors published in 2000

Journal of Social Service Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-31

  Barker, Krista L ^a   Thyer, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorial practices; Evaluation; Social work journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645680092     PISSN: 01488376     EISSN: 15407314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J079v32n01_02     Document Type: Review

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