How Do You Know When An Article Is Peer-Reviewed?
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. Peer reviewing increases the legitimacy of both the article and the journal, so publishers do not make it difficult to find out if an article has been peer-reviewed. Check the name of the journal against a list of peer-reviewed journals such as the one linked to in Resources. There isn’t a comprehensive list including every peer-reviewed journal, so a journal’s absence from this list does not mean it is not peer-reviewed. If you have access to an academic search database such as Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, look up the article in it. It will tell you whether the article is peer-reviewed. If you have a copy of the journal the article appeared in, look at the inside front cover. There should be
