Peer-reviewed articles are articles that have undergone a rigorous review process. An author submits a manuscript to a journal. Journal reviewers, which are professionals and experts in the same field, evaluate the manuscript and determine whether or not the manuscript’s ideas, procedures, and content are worthy of publication on the basis of accuracy, validity, and rigor. Thus, the author’s peers review and evaluate the value that a manuscript may have on that discipline. In this way, a peer-reviewed article can represent the best research practices in the academic field. Peer-reviewed articles may also be called scholarly or refereed.
Look for these elements in a peer-reviewed article:
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Ulrich’s Periodicals is another resource that you can use to determine if a journal is peer-reviewed.
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