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Editorial: The Numbers Game: The Impact Factor and All That Jazz

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  1. Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic, Child Psychiatry Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – Clarke Division, 250 College St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1R8

    Kenneth J. Zucker (Editor,Archives of Sexual behavior)

  2. Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario

    James M. Cantor

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Zucker, K.J., Cantor, J.M. Editorial: The Numbers Game: The Impact Factor and All That Jazz. Arch Sex Behav 32, 3–5 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021881026651

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