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Meta-analyses and Forest plots using a microsoft excel spreadsheet: step-by-step guide focusing on descriptive data analysis

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Altmetric score 23
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  • 823 Mendeley
  • 2 Citeulike

This article is in the 95th percentile (ranked 11,295th) of the 254,954 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 97th percentile (ranked 2nd) of the 79 tracked articles of a similar age in BMC Research Notes

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