A peer-reviewed journal is a highly respected scholarly publication. Before an article is published in a peer-reviewed journal, it is sent by the editors of the journal to other scholars in the field ("peers") to get feedback on the quality of the scholarship. Peer-reviewed journals are sometime called scholarly, academic or referred.
Some great places to start your research are WPI Library Search and Google Scholar, which are interdisciplinary resources. For discipline-specific research, browse our Subject Guides to find databases and other online resources that relate to your topic. If you know the name of a database you wish to search, such as Scopus or Engineering Village, go to our A-Z List of Databases.
To find peer reviewed articles in WPI Library Search, type your keywords into the search box, and then choose the Peer-Reviewed Journals filter in the left of the search results page.
Peer Review Overview
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Key Student Learning Competencies:
What is Peer-Review? (0:10)
The Impact of Peer-Review Processes (0:50)
The Peer-Review Process (1:39)
Locating Peer-Reviewed Articles via the Gordon Library (2:25)
Our Interlibrary Loan service allows WPI students and faculty to request items from other libraries free of charge.
Check the Anatomy of a Scholarly Article to find out what a scholarly article generally looks like. Please note that this is only one example of the format of a scholarly article. Scholarly articles can also contain headings such as methodology, discussion of results etc.
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