Peer-reviewed articles, sometimes known as scholarly, refereed, research or academic articles, have the following characteristics:
1. Written by researchers/scholars
2. Reviewed by other researchers/scholars - this process is called peer-review
3. Published in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals
4. Written for an audience of other researchers/scholars
5. Created to share research with others in the scholarly discipline
Go to the journal's website or look up the name of the journal in UlrichsWeb. Journals that are peer-reviewed (aka refereed) will have a referee symbol - 
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