Joseph R. Skeen Library : MENG 341 (Ford): Peer Review

Check out the video below for a brief explanation of peer review

Peer Review (Credo Video)
Throughout this video, you’ll learn what peer review is and why it’s important, how the peer review process works, and how to locate peer-reviewed articles.

Take the quiz below to test your knowledge of peer review

Peer Review (Quiz)
Test your knowledge of the peer review process.

Be sure to keep the following things in mind as you're looking for scholarly articles and evaluating them. Click on the Need Practice? tab below to see if you can identify a peer-reviewed article.

How to Identify Scholarly Articles
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Scholarly journal articles will typically include the following:

An abstract or summary at the beginning;
Citations or a bibliography;
The author's affiliation and credentials; and
The journal title will often contain words such as journal or review and is dedicated to a specific subject or topic

Also consider these points about scholarly journal articles:

They are written to inform researchers in the field and thus contain specialized language
They tend to have few, if any, images, but often contain charts, graphs, or data tables

Found an article, but you aren't sure if it's scholarly? Compare it to the Anatomy of a Scholarly Article from North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries.

There's also a streaming version, if you have 4-5 minutes to spare (trust us, it will be time well-spent).

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