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What is Peer Review?
It is the quality control system for scholarship. It means that articles in a peer-reviewed journal must be scrutinized by experts before they are published. SYNONYMS = 'academic', 'juried', 'refereed', 'scholarly'.
How can you tell when something is peer-reviewed?
1) When you are looking at a print copy, of an entire issue of a journal, the editorial board of scholars with academic credentials and institutional affiliations will be listed somewhere. These are the 'peers' that review each published article.
2) Use a check box limit in your database search (when available).
Subject Coverage:
anthropology, astronomy & astrophysics, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, biophysics & biomolecular structure, cell & developmental biology, clinical psychology, computer science, earth & planetary sciences, ecology, evolution & systematics, entomology, environment & resources, fluid mechanics, genetics, genomics & human genetics, immunology, law and social science, materials research, medicine, microbiology, neuroscience, nuclear & particle science, nutrition, pharmacology & toxicology, physical chemistry, physiology, phytopathology, plant biology, political science, psychology, public health, sociology
Dates of Coverage:
1932 to present (for indexing)
1996 to present (for full text)
Update Frequency:
annually
Size:
more than 30,000 records
Subject Coverage:
chemistry
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
Compounds (more than 31 million entries)
Substances (more than 75 million entries)