Rigor, Transparency, and Reporting Social Science Research: Why Guidelines Don’t Have to Kill Your Story

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 487-493

  Wharton, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

publication; reporting guidelines; research; social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020678250     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731515622264     Document Type: Article

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