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What does peer-reviewed mean?

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You may hear the terms peer-reviewed article or academic article or scholarly article. This means experts in the same field as the author have reviewed and evaluated the article being considered for publication. Please visit "Evaluating Information: Magazines and Journals" to learn more about the difference between peer-reviewed and not peer-reviewed articles.

Additionally, to find peer-reviewed articles, look for limiting options in many of our research databases that will limit your searches to peer-reviewed articles only.  For example, this search option illustrated from EBSCO's various databases:

Peer review limiter in EBSCO

If you need assistance finding or determining if an article is peer-reviewed, Research Help is available.