How do I know if an article is "scholarly"?
Answer
Here are some typical features of an article in a Scholarly Journal
- Longer articles
- Authors are usually experts and their qualifications or affiliations are listed or easily found
- Written for a scholarly audience (people who specialize in that subject area, researchers)
- The title of the periodical usually indicates it is scholarly with words like “journal,” “bulletin,” or “review”
- Articles are factual, unemotional, scientific, and unbiased
- Many use technical language
- Little or no advertising
- List of references or footnotes always included
- May contain graphs, charts, or tables