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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Cabells Journalytics help professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts in academic journals. The directories are aimed to assist in organizing and preparing manuscripts. They provide the information on the type of review process, acceptance rate and the number of internal and external reviews.
The Directories also includes extensive information on the style, format of most journals along with analytics-impact factor, Altmetrics (social media mentions), and citation rankings
Qualitative Study |
Quantitative Study |
Literature Review |
Meta-Analysis |
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 |
Case Study
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May involves experimentation |
Considered scholarly but not primary research/ no new study is conducted |
Uses existing studies |
Interview |
Survey/ questionnaire
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Usually considered another form of quantitative research |
Focus Groups |
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