Academic journals will typically identify their contributors as professors, graduate students, or others with first-hand experience with the subject matter. Dennis G. Jerz 28 Dec — First posted. The answer, unfortuantely, is yes. Some journals are moving towards a more open, transparent system of debating the pros and cons of submissions. For example, I linked to a page where I found criticism of this handout, and then explained how I revised in order to respond to that criticism.
Traditional peer review would have handled all that anonymously, and the public would only see the end result. The reason being that the information found there is peer reviewed.
This is true, journalists can write opinionated articles on different subjects but they only seem to show one side of the argument. If you really want to see both sides of an argument or see the true ins and outs of a specific topic then you are better to read an article that is written by two people who are both respected their field of work. I want to publish a series of articles related to Social Sciences.
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Return to top. Loading Library Hours What is a scholarly source? What is peer-review? Why use scholarly sources? How can I tell if a source is scholarly? Authors Are author names provided? Are the credentials relevant to the information provided? Publishers Who is the publisher of the information?
Is the publisher an academic institution, scholarly, or professional organization? Is their purpose for publishing this information evident? How do you determine whether an article qualifies as being a peer-reviewed journal article? First, you need to be able to identify which journals are peer-reviewed. There are generally four methods for doing this.
If you have used the previous four methods in trying to determine if an article is from a peer-reviewed journal and are still unsure, speak to your instructor. In this section. Library Guides. Three categories of information resources: Newspapers and magazines containing news - Articles are written by reporters who may or may not be experts in the field of the article. Consequently, articles may contain incorrect information.
The article is more likely to be scientifically valid, reach reasonable conclusions, etc. In most cases the reviewers do not know who the author of the article is, so that the article succeeds or fails on its own merit, not the reputation of the expert. Helpful hint! There are generally four methods for doing this Limiting a database search to peer-reviewed journals only.
Some databases allow you to limit searches for articles to peer reviewed journals only. For example, Academic Search Complete has this feature on the initial search screen - click on the pertinent box to limit the search.
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