Answered By: Shelly Jablonski
Last Updated: Feb 01, 2024     Views: 277

Scholarly Journals:

  • Many assignments require scholarly journals. 
    • They can also be known as: academic journals, peer-reviewed journals, or refereed journals.
  • Scholarly journals publish articles written by experts in a given discipline.
  • Many scholarly journals use a review process before accepting articles for publication.
    • What does this mean? Experts in that academic field examine or review the article to ensure its accuracy.
    • This review process is known as Peer Review.
  • For more information, refer to our guide on Identify Different Types of Information Sources

Common characteristics of scholarly journals:

  • articles feature experiments, case studies, or other original research
  • authors are scholars or experts
  • articles are long and detailed
  • few pictures, but possibly graphs & charts included
  • bibliographies included for each article
  • specialized language from a specific discipline
  • intended for an audience of researchers