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Popular (magazine, newspaper) |
Scholarly (journal) |
| Content |
Current events; general interest articles |
Research results/reports; reviews of research (review articles); book reviews |
| Purpose |
To inform, entertain, or elicit an emotional response |
To share research or scholarship with the academic and/or scientific community
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| Authors |
Journalists, staff writers, freelancers |
Professors, scholars, researchers in the field |
| Audience |
General public |
Scholars, academics, researchers in same or related field |
| Review Process |
Staff of editors |
Peer review: invited board made up of other scholars and researchers who review in a double blind process (reviewers do not know the author's name and author does not know who is reviewing and providing feedback) |
| Citations |
Informal; hyperlinks or named references that you can search ('according to a 2008 study in JAMA led by XX') |
Bibliographies, references, endnotes, footnotes organized and written according to strict citation rules of the discipline or publication. |
| Frequency |
Daily/weekly/monthly |
Quarterly/semi-annually |
| Ads |
Many; for products, events. Important revenue for publication. |
Minimal; maybe for scholarly books. Not a source of revenue for publication. |
| Examples |
The New York Times, Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Economist |
New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of American Medical Association, Journal of Southern History, Developmental Psychology |
