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 and may contain graphs & charts
- bibliographies included for each article
- specialized language from a specific discipline
- intended for an audience of researchers
