Scholarly peer reviewed articles, Part one, learning objectives. In this video, we will explain why peer review is important. We will also distinguish between scholarly peer reviewed articles and popular articles. First of all, why do we need scholarly peer reviewed articles? >> For starters, instructors often require a minimum number of scholarly peer-reviewed articles for your papers and assignments. >> Also, scholarly peer reviewed articles give you relatively up to date information compared to books. Scholarly peer reviewed articles. We'll also give you specific information compared to book's. Finally, scholarly peer reviewed articles go through a peer review process. >> We will discuss this process in the next slide. >> What is the peer review process? The peer review process starts off with researchers. Researchers conduct research, typically under the affiliation of a university. Researchers then write their papers and submit them to peer review journals. Experts within the academic field are identified by these peer reviewed journals and designed to review these articles. The experts look at the research methods and make sure that they are up to certain standards. The experts also check facts and figures and other details within the paper and verify the information. >> The experts often have revisions and recommendations. >> Researchers must revise or papers before they submit these papers back to the journal. Only after this rigorous review process are peer reviewed articles published. So how do you know if you have a scholarly article? For starters? The articles are long, typically ten pages or more. >> They will include an abstract or summary of what is included in the article. >> If you go to the end of the article, you will see a long list of references citing all the sources that the researcher used. The authors or the researchers should be listed typically at the top of the, the article with all of their credentials. He's authors typically have PhDs or post doctorate degrees from various universities. Finally, the articles that are scholarly are typically text-based, include a lot of jargon. >> They may include charts and graphs, but they will not include a lot of glossy images. >> Here is an example of a scholarly article. You can see at the top that the author is associated with the James Cook University. >> This article includes an abstract, a brief summary of the information, whoops. Below. This article also is quite long, 19 pages and includes a lengthy list of references. This example is not a scholarly article. >> You can tell because the article is short, just one page. >> There's no abstract. >> And you can see at the bottom of the page, the author does not have credentials with our university. >> There are no references, and there is one glossy photo in the middle of this article. >> Is article is not scholarly and not suitable for your scholarly sources within your research.