Peer review isn't a tough concept. It just means that the article was reviewed by scholars and meets certain standards with regards to a publication or a discipline
Peer reviewed/scholarly articles are typically written by professors or specialists.
A great clue that something is peer reviewed or scholarly: The article contains a list of references or cites.
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Overviews of academic journals aimed at helping professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts. Information includes the type of review process, acceptance rate, and the number of internal and external reviews used by the journal. The predatory reports module identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals by reviewing on a 65-point metric to flag potentially exploitative or dishonest operations.
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Qualitative Study |
Quantitative Study |
Literature Review |
Meta-Analysis |
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Sample groups too small to analyze using statistics
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Produces numerical results/ analyzed statistically |
An article that provides an overview of important research on a particular topic |
Reviews several quantitative studies analyzing them looking for patterns/ trends within data |
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Case Study
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May involves experimentation |
Considered scholarly but not primary research/ no new study is conducted |
Uses existing studies |
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Interview |
Survey/ questionnaire
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Usually considered another form of quantitative research |
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Focus Groups |
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