A peer-reviewed article can have many names:
- Peer reviewed
- Scholarly
- Academic
- Refereed
The Process of Peer Review:
- Draft of Article is sent to experts in the field to: ensure that there are no errors; evaluate the quality of the research documented in the article; checks for unsupported claims; recommends revisions to improve the article before it is published
- Author revises article based on feedbadck
- Article published
Some common characteristics of peer reviewed articles are:
- The author's credentials include an advanced degree and affiliation with a university
- The writing style used technical terms because it is written for other scholars
- The article contains an abstract, literature review, and reference list.
