magazines and journals
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Magazines and Journals
Why peer-reviewed sources are
your best research friends
Other names for peer-reviewed journals
Academic journals
Scholarly journals
Professional journals
Scientific journals
Refereed journals
Peer Review Process
Scholar writes an articleto share research results
Scholar submits articleto peer-reviewed journal
for consideration
Specialists in the same field review scholar's work for accuracy, honesty,
reliability, and currency
Specialists give the article a good review.
The article gets published in the journal
Cover art and imagesMagazines use eye-catching
covers and images in order to sell copies, and contain
advertisements
Journals usually do not have cover art, images, or
advertisements
ArticlesMagazines
• Articles are short and provide broad overviews
• Articles rarely report scholarly research or go into detail
• Articles are written for the general public
• Articles will not have citations or footnotes
Journals
• Articles tend to be longer with in-depth analysis
• Articles present new research and scholarly findings
• Research articles have distinct parts: abstract, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, charts and graphs
• Articles will have citations or footnotes to document sources
Accuracy: Magazines
• Magazines are not peer reviewed.• Stories are usually not written or edited
by experts in that subject.• To sell more copies, headlines may
distort research findings.• Advertising can influence content.
Accuracy: Journals
• Most journals are peer reviewed. • Before an article can be published, it must be
reviewed by a panel of experts.• This ensures the research is accurate and
reliable.• Journals don’t sell to a popular audience, so
they are not influenced by financial considerations / the need to distort stories for sales or please advertisers