LibGuides: Education incl. PA &amp; HR: Scholarly Publication

What is a scholarly journal?

Scholarly journals have collections of articles written by scholars or experts in academic and professional fields. The articles can be presenting new research findings from empirical studies or make critical examinations of previous research, or focus on developing new theories.

A scholarly journal article undergoes a "peer-review" - process, where other scholars in the field are ascertaining the scholarly quality of the article, before its publication. An original article presenting new research are also characterized by following a text-structure with certain sections:

Abstract (summary of content)
Introduction (purpose and problem)
Method and Material
Results
Analysis and Discussion
References

Tools for identifying and comparing scholarly journals

Find out more about specific scholarly journals and articles, for example citations and impact factor.

Ulrich's Web Global Serials Directory
A database with bibliographic information for about a quarter of a million journals. You get a view of the journal´s content and publication information. Look under "Document Type" to see if the journal is scholarly.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Here you'll find SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR indicator) for evaluation of journals, buliding upon data from the Scpous database.
InCites Journal Citation Reports
A tool to compare and evaluate scholarly journals and authors, based on citations.

How to Identify Scholarly Journals

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

Peer review in 3 minutes

This video was created at North Carolina State University Libraries:

What is scholarly publishing?

How do I differ a scholarly journal from a popular magazine? Read more about this and on scholarly publishing in these guides:

Scholarly publications - an introduction (Jönköping university)
This guide describes the scholarly journal article and characteristics of different periodicals, including a video on scientific publishing (16 min.)
What is a Scholarly journal? (SFU Library)
This guide will help you distinguish between scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications and will also help you identify and evaluate these types of sources, for example how to verify Journal Types in Ulrich's database.