Nursing: Peer Reviewed
What is not considered peer reviewed or scholarly
The easiest way to avoid having to determine this is to use the databases provided via KentLINK and OhioLINK and check the "scholarly or peer reviewed" box at the left hand of the search screen.
Websites and Google searches rarely bring you scholarly results.
Google Scholar will bring some, but certainly not the kind of results you'll get from our databases.
Professional research in the medical field should never be carried be done via Google.
Using our databases also allows you to easily narrow your searches using limiters, subject headings, age ranges, and much more.
What is a Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Article
Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Articles
You will see these types of articles referred to in two different manners- Peer reviewed or Scholarly Articles both have the same critieria.
Your instructor has asked you to find an article in a scholarly (or professional or refereed or peer-reviewed) journal. Scholarly journals differ from popular magazines and trade journals/magazines in a number of ways. (See "Comparison Chart" below.) A primary difference between scholarly journals and other types of journals and magazines is that articles in these journals undergo a "peer review" process before they are published. What does this mean?
- Peer review is the process by which an author's peers, recognized researchers in the field, read and evaluate a paper (article) submitted for publication and recommend whether the paper should be published, revised, or rejected.
- Peer review is a widely accepted indicator of quality scholarship in a discipline or field. Articles accepted for publication through a peer review process meet the discipline's expected standards of expertise.
- Peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals are scholarly journals that only publish articles that have passed through this review process.
Still confused???
Navigating nursing resources can be difficult at first. Luckily your library staff knows just want to do.
Visit the library or make an appointment with Cherie Bronkar cbronkar@kent.edu.
We can show you how to quickly find just the right resources.
