a call for meta-analyses, systematic, and qualitative literature reviews
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Addiction Research and Theory
December 2009; 17(6): 561
Editorial
A call for meta-analyses, systematic, and qualitativeliterature reviews
Addiction Research and Theory is a journal with a broad diverse and international readership.
Hence, we attract authors who publish sophisticated scholarship on addictive disorders –
scholarship that represents many intellectual streams flowing through the addictive disorders
field worldwide. We have recently noted that in the field of addictions there lacks a major
identifiable home for the publication of review articles – something that exists in other
disciplines.
Because of our unique position as a journal with a broad international readership
who have multiple intellectual interests in addictive behaviors, we have decided to expand
our mission. In addition to publishing primary studies, case studies, and theoretical articles,
a new goal of Addiction Research and Theory is to ‘become the major identifiable outlet in the
addictions field for the publication of meta-analyses (and other quantitative reviews),
systematic reviews, and qualitative literature reviews’. We, therefore, invite scholars of all
stripes to view us as the journal for the purpose of informing the world about the major trends
in treatment, theory, and the basic science of addictions.
William Gottdiener
Department of Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, USA
E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 1606-6359 print/ISSN 1476-7392 online � 2009 Informa UK Ltd.
DOI: 10.3109/16066350903276463
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