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Introduction
Definitions
Audience
Author(s)
Peer Reviewed
Article Length
Bibliographies
Other Clues
Conclusion
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Peer Reviewed
Articles
"Peer
review" is a process that journal articles go through before they are
published.
The University of California Berkeley Library describes
the peer review process for an
article as a process "in which a group of
widely acknowledged experts in a field reviews
the article for content,
scholarly soundness, and academic value." This process is also
known as
"refereed."
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For example, in
January 2004 the journal Marine Geology
published an
article entitled"Tsunami hazard from
submarine l
and slides on the Oregon continental slope."
The authors were
a professor of geology at Vassar College and an engineer at a
consulting
company. Before they published the article, the
editors of Marine Geology
sent the article to
other geologists
and engineers to ensure it was scholarly
in content and language,
and
that it offered information of value to marine geology
experts. Because the article was
approved by the peers (or fellow experts)
of the authors, it
was accepted for publication.
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Magazine articles,
on the other hand, do not go through
a peer-review or refereed process. The articles that appear
in Yoga Journal
(which
is a
magazine by the way, not a journal)
are checked by the magazine's
editors,
but not by experts. So
the articles in Yoga Journal do not go
through the
extra check
of being peer reviewed before being published.
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