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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews

scholarly journal series

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Source revisionNov 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ55637665 ↗
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (abbreviated WIREs) is a set of peer-reviewed scientific journals that each publish interdisciplinary review articles on high-profile topics. The series was established in 2009 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Each journal publishes new review articles every month.

The journal series won the 2009 R.R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wiley, Interdisciplinary and Reviews can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.