PAPB 501: Understanding and Implementing Clinical Research Library Guide

When a someone wants you to find a peer reviewed journal, he or she wants a journal that has an evaluation process for accepting articles for publication.

Here is how it works:

• The journal has a panel of experts in a particular field that make up the review board.
• That board evaluates each article submitted based on the quality of the article's content.
• If it is a high quality article it is accepted for publication.

Think of the peer review process as you would grading. The articles withA's are included in the article are accepted for publication while ones who are lower than an A are rejected. 

Peer reviewed journals usually are more research based with methodologies and references to back up their statements while non peer reviewed articles do not. Many non peer reviewed articles are from magazines and trade publications.