How can you identify a scholarly article?

How can you identify a scholarly article?

Identifying Scholarly Articles

1. Author(s) name included. Scholarly articles are written by experts of researchers, so make sure that the author’s name is included.
2. Technical or specialized language.
3. Written for professionals.
4. Charts, graphs, and diagrams.
5. Long (5+ pages)
6. Bibliography included.

How do I find an article?

Tips for Finding Articles Use online databases to find articles in journals, newspapers, and magazines (periodicals). You can search for periodical articles by the article author, title, or keyword by using databases in your subject area in Databases.

Are all articles on Google Scholar scholarly?

Unfortunately Google Scholar doesn’t have a setting that will allow you to restrict results only to peer-reviewed articles. If you find articles in Google Scholar, you would have to look up the journal the article is published in to find out whether they use peer review or not.

How do I know if it’s a peer-reviewed article?

One of the best places to find out if a journal is peer-reviewed is to go to the journal website. Most publishers have a website for a journal that tells you about the journal, how authors can submit an article, and what the process is for getting published.

How do you know if it is a peer review article?

If the article is from a printed journal, look at the publication information in the front of the journal. If the article is from an electronic journal, go to the journal home page and look for a link to ‘About this journal’ or ‘Notes for Authors’. Here it should tell you if the articles are peer-reviewed.

How do I activate Google Scholar?

Log on to scholar.google.com and click the “My Profile” link at the top of the page to get your account setup started. On the first screen, add your affiliation information and OU email address, so Google Scholar can confirm your account.

How do you find citations in a paper?

To find an author’s h-index in WOS:

1. Enter the name of the author in the top search box (e.g. Smith JT). Select Author from the drop-down menu on the right.
2. Click on Search.
3. Click on Citation Report on the right hand corner of the results page. The H-index is on the right of the screen.

What is the difference between Google and Google Scholar?

The difference between Google and Google Scholar is that Google Scholar focuses on the scholarly literature available on the Internet. Google, on the other hand, has a broader scope, and retrieves resources regardless of where online they come from.

How do you find out how many times an article has been cited?

Navigate to Scopus, which can be found under “S” in “Find a Database”. From here all you need to do is search for the article in which you are interested. To the right of the search results, you can see the number of times the article has been cited.