| Popular or Magazine Articles | Scholarly or Journal Articles |
| Intended for a general audience | Intended for a professional audience |
| Written by journalists or people with general knowledge of the subject | Written by experts or people with specialized knowledge in the field |
| Not reviewed by experts before publication | Reviewed by experts before publication |
| Do not include footnotes or a citations list |
Include footnotes and a citations list |
Scholarly Journals, Academic Journals, and Peer-Reviewed Journals typically mean the same thing.
This tutorial will make you a champion at all of them.
They All Look Like Magazines!
Scholarly/Academic Journals are Peer - Reviewed
Life Cycle of Scientific Information
- Life cycle
"Scientific information has a ‘life cycle’ of its own… it is born as an idea, and then
matures and becomes more available to the public. First it appears within the so-called
‘invisible college’ of experts in the field, discussed at conferences and symposia or
posted as pre-prints for comments and corrections. Then it appears in the published
literature (the primary literature), often as a journal article in a peer-reviewed journal.
Researchers can use the indexing and alerting services of the secondary literature to find
out what has been published in a field. Depending on how much information is added by
the indexer or abstracter, this may take a few months (though electronic publication has
sped up this process). Finally, the information may appear in more popular or reference
sources, sometimes called the tertiary literature."
(Source: https://www.utoledo.edu/library/help/guides/docs/LifeCycleSciInfo.pdf)
