Answered By: Robyn Williams
Last Updated: May 06, 2021     Views: 12

Scholarly work in peer-reviewed journals is considered more scholarly than articles which are simply edited, like the articles you would find in a newspaper or from a popular magazine.  

Some ways to tell if it was peer-reviewed:

1. Restrict your searches in library databases to peer-reviewed sources

[a filter for peer review where the option is checked to restrict the results]

 

2. When you find your journal, try to identify a section that says it is peer reviewed and how

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Look in your article and see if the article was submitted, then later accepted (a sign of peer reviewing)

[a section of an article where the publication dates are shown, showing how the authors didn't publish right away, instead had an acceptance date]