UGS 303: Language & Communication Across Species - Quinto-Pozos

Review articles are an attempt by one or more writers to sum up the current state of the research on a particular topic. Ideally, the writer searches for everything relevant to the topic, and then sorts it all out into a coherent view of the “state of the art” as it now stands.  Review articles do not report the result of one particular study.   

Research articles report the results of a particular study.  They include a methods section that outlines how they did their study and a results section to report the outcomes.

You have a few options to see if something is peer-reviewed.

1.  Check Ulrichsweb.

1. access the database
2. type in the title of the journal
3. peer-reviewed journals will have a referee jersey ("refereed" is another term for "peer-reviewed") - example below

2. In many search tools, you can click on the title of the journal and it will take you to a page describing that journal and linking you to the publishers' site where you can find out the publication process.