How do I know if a journal is peer reviewed?
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Many databases, such as Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) or ProQuest databases, you may limit to Scholarly or Peer Reviewed journals before you perform your search to eliminate non-scholarly sources from your results.
If you have an article in hand, you might 1) review the status in library tools such as Full Text Finder OR 2) review the journal's webpage for information.
- The most accurate way will be to use Full Text Finder. Enter the name of the journal, such as Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Select this title in Full Text Finder to review a journal information page. In this you will find an option for 'peer-reviewed' and it will say yes or no.
- Alternately you can use Google to search for the journal title. Look for the journal webpage and review what they say about the journal. 'The About the Journal' page may note this specifically. Some journals may provide information for 'reviewers' which will indicate a peer reviewed process. You can also look at what is said about the journal in other places, such as Wikipedia.
If neither of the above methods seem to work, you can review the Anatomy of a Scholarly Journal website and see if your journal article has the same elements.
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