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Lund University

Psychology

A subject guide made for students and staff at the The Department of Psychology at Lund University

How to Identify Scholarly Journals

Research Minutes is a series for undergraduate students at Cornell University covering library research topics.

Tools for identifying and comparing scholarly journals

By googling the journal homepage you should be able to find information on things like the aim and scope of the journal, but also if the journal is Peer-reviewed. You can also use tools like the ones presented below and check whether a journal is peer-reviewed or not, if it has a high ranking within its subject area, etc.