How do I know if a journal article is peer-reviewed?

How do I know if a journal article is peer-reviewed?

If the article is from a printed journal, look at the publication information in the front of the journal. If the article is from an electronic journal, go to the journal home page and look for a link to ‘About this journal’ or ‘Notes for Authors’. Here it should tell you if the articles are peer-reviewed.

Is the Journal of Psychology peer-reviewed?

OCLC no. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied is a bimonthly double-blind, peer-review psychology journal published by Taylor & Francis. The Journal of Psychology was founded in 1935 by Carl Murchison, an American psychologist, organizer, publisher, and editor.

What is a peer-reviewed journal article in Psychology?

What Is a Peer-Reviewed Article? Peer Review is a process that journals use to ensure the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available.

Where can I find peer-reviewed psychology articles?

Find articles using Library databases – Quick Guide

1. APA PsycARTICLES (via Ebsco)
2. APA PsycINFO (via Ebsco)
3. APA PsycTESTS (via Ebsco)
4. Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (via Ebsco)
5. ProQuest (Multi-Database Search)
6. PubMed.
7. SAGE Journals.

Are all Google Scholar articles peer reviewed?

Unfortunately Google Scholar doesn’t have a setting that will allow you to restrict results only to peer-reviewed articles. If you find articles in Google Scholar, you would have to look up the journal the article is published in to find out whether they use peer review or not.

Are PMC articles peer reviewed?

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital archive of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences. PMC provides openly available peer-reviewed scientific research. PMC does not include any non peer-reviewed research articles.

Are all APA journals peer-reviewed?

Like other scientific journals, APA journals utilize a peer review process to guide manuscript selection and publication decisions. Toward the goal of impartiality, the majority of APA journals follow a masked review policy, in which authors’ and reviewers’ identities are concealed from each other.

Is Frontiers in psychology peer-reviewed?

Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology.

Are all papers peer-reviewed?

Not every kind of article published in a peer reviewed journal is peer reviewed. Articles like editorials and book reviews do not go through the peer review process, but primary research articles do.

How to recognize peer-reviewed journals?

Limiting a database search to peer-reviewed journals only.

Checking in the database Ulrichsweb.com to determine if the journal is indicated as being peer-reviewed.

Examining the publication to see if it is peer-reviewed.

Find the official Web site on the Internet,and check to see if it states that the journal is peer-reviewed.

What is a “peer reviewed” source?

A scholar/author writes an article and submits it to the editor of a journal or book.

The editor sends it to other scholars in the field (peers) to be reviewed for quality.

The reviewers review the material,then tell the editor whether they think it’s good enough to be published in that journal and/or if changes need to be made.

What is a peer review article?

Peer review is a process used to evaluate articles submitted to prestigious academic journals. A peer-reviewed article is read by experts in the field, who inform the editors of the journal whether or not the article is accurate, original and significant and help decide if it is worth printing.

What is a peer review journal?

Essentially, peer review is an academic term for quality control. Each article published in a peer-reviewed journal was closely examined by a panel of reviewers who are experts on the article’s topic (that is, the author’s professional peers…hence the term peer review).