What is a Peer Reviewed vs Refereed Article?
What is a Peer Reviewed Article?
A peer-reviewed article must pass the scrutiny of reviewers who are experts in the field or on the research topic of the article. Usually you can assume that a peer-reviewed journal contains peer-reviewed articles; however, as always there may be some exceptions.
What is a Refereed Article?
A refereed article is an article which has been carefully reviewed and scrutinized by scholars or experts in the research topic of the article who are not members of the editorial staff or board. In many cases the article has been subjected to a blind review process by one or more external readers.
To be certain, you may consult Ulrich's Guide to Periodicals.
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What is the difference between a magazine and a scholarly journal?
There are three main types of publications that publish articles: 1. Popular Magazines 2. Trade Magazines 3. Scholarly Journals (also called academic, refereed or peer-reviewed)
Magazines
- goals are to entertain and inform
- Authors are often professional writers, rather than experts in the subject
- Content might be fact, but might be anecdote or opinion
- Articles almost never have bibliographies
- Require no specialized knowledge or vocabulary to be understood
- Articles are not peer-reviewed
- Often have colourful covers or interfaces, and will usually contain advertising and many pictures
Examples: Discover, National Geographic, Psychology Today, Scientific American, Wired, Time, and Newsweek
Trade magazines or journals
- inform members of a particular industry or profession, generally by including industry- or profession-specific content
- Content is a mixture of fact, anecdote and opinion
- Some articles may have bibliographies
- Often require professional knowledge and vocabulary to be fully understood
- Articles are not peer-reviewed
- Usually have colourful covers, and contain pictures and advertising geared to the particular industry or profession
- Often are published by trade or professional organizations
Examples: Chemical & Engineering News, Genetic Engineering News and BioProcess International
Scholarly journals
- Are periodicals whose goal is scholarly communication: providing the means by which scholars and researchers share their findings with one another and with the public
- Contain primary, research articles describing new research or ideas; these are written in a formal manner that includes background information, methods used, results/interpretation and significance
- Many also include scholarly review articles
- Some have news sections which briefly report on new research; these are not research articles
- Research and review articles always have footnotes or bibliographies
- Research articles are peer-reviewed: experts examine submitted articles before accepting them for publication
- Articles often require specialized knowledge or vocabulary to be understood
- These journals usually have plain covers or interfaces and contain more graphs and charts than photographs
Examples: JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), Annual Review of Microbiology, Journal of Biomechanics, Cell, Journal of Applied Ecology
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