What is Peer-Review?
The difference between scholarly journals and other types of journals and magazines is that articles in scholarly journals go through a "peer review" process before they are published.
What does this mean?
- Peer review is the process by which an author's peers read and evaluate an article submitted for publication and recommend whether the paper should be published, revised, or rejected.
- Peer review is a widely accepted indicator of quality scholarship in a discipline or field. Articles accepted for publication through a peer-review process meet the discipline's expected standards of expertise.
- Peer-reviewed journals are scholarly journals that only publish articles that have passed through this review process.
Learn more about Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleFrom NCSU Libraries
Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Library Search Box
Many of the Library's article databases allow you to limit the search results to peer-reviewed or scholarly articles.
- Library Search Box: on the result page, use the limiters on the left side to narrow the search down by peer-review or look for articles tagged as Peer-Review.
Peer Review Articles in Databases
In databases like Proquest or Academic Search Complete, check the box "Peer reviewed" or "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under the limit your results.
