Scholarly vs. Popular Journals
What Peer-Reviewed Means
Peer-reviewed (or refereed, scholarly, etc.) journals are committed to a rigorous editorial process where submitted articles are reviewed by experts in the field before they are accepted. Because they are highly selective, peer-reviewed journals are usually the most prestigious in their fields.
Use this list of General Criteria to help you tell the difference between popular magazines, trade magazines and scholarly journals.
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Lists of Peer-reviewed Journals
Ulrichsweb.com - An authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers and newsletters.
ISI Master Journal List
Australian Dept of Education, Science and Training’s Register of Refereed Journals (click on Availabilty)
CINAHL Peer-Reviewed journals in health sciences
Eigenfactor: Ranking and Mapping Scientific Journals - Eigenfactor.org ranks scholarly journals in the natural and social sciences, and also lists newsprint, PhD theses, popular magazines and more.
PAIS International Peer-reviewed Journals list - If the Journal is not listed check the journal website. It can often give you the information you need.
How Can I Search for a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article?
These databases allow the user to search for articles that are only available in peer-reviewed journals.
CINAHL from EBSCO
Select “Peer Reviewed Journals” from the Journal Subsets window
Academic Search Premier from EBSCO
On the Keyword Search screen under Limit Your Results, select “Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals"
OneFile [Academic and General OneFile] from GALE Cengage
When using the "Advanced Search" or "Power Search" limit results to "peer-reviewed publications"
Ethnic News Watch from ProQuest
On the Basic Search or Advanced Search screen, under Limit Results, select “Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed”
PsycINFO or PsycARTICLES from CSA Illumina
You must first run a search. Then click the TAB "Peer-Reviewed Journals" on your results list.
Scholarly and Popular Sources Tutorial: by Jen Klaudinyi - from CLIP - The Cooperative Library Instruction Project
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