Peer Reviewed Journals (or Refereed)

Your professors will expect you to use peer reviewed or refereed journals.

What is Peer Review?

In a peer reviewed journal (also known as refereed) drafts of articles are critically assessed by other scholars in the author's field or specialty before they are accepted for publication.

Peer review is the accepted method for ensuring that information is of the highest quality.

Just because a journal is peer reviewed does not guarantee that all articles in it are included in the peer review process. Some article types, such as news items, editorials and book and article reviews, may not be peer reviewed.

Learn more:

Identifying Peer-Reviewed/Refereed Journals (Walden University)

What is a Peer-Reviewed Journal? (University of Illinois/Urbana - Champaign)

 

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