Scholarly articles: what it is
Updated: Author: Alina Kanametova
Scholarly articles: definition
Key answer
Weight depends on the venue: a reputable peer-reviewed journal beats a blog. For practitioners, professional outlets also work if they have an editorial process and a field audience.
How to tell major media from scholarly venues and how to assess a journal (impact factor) is in the KB; check a specific journal in the catalog.
Scholarly articles: the official source
Scholarly articles: what to do - tools
Scholarly articles: read next
Scholarly articles: documents and templates from the library
Scholarly articles: from community discussions
«People often don't understand the structure of a petition: when they say "I'll prepare everything," they think all that's left is to package it. But each item there needs several others. Like, here's a media article - and you need a pile of exports about the outlet's ratings and a description of the outlet itself, plus all of it with translations.»
Olga · from public community chats
«If the article goes as Subscription, you don't pay a penny; if for Open access, then yes, you have to fork out. Springerlink and Elsevier always offer a choice; MDPI is only paid, in AIAA you can definitely find free, same as in IEEE.»
community member · from public community chats
«In my experience, journals always charged money for publication, plus you can pay extra to make the article open access, plus you have to pay extra for additional pages. In IEEE you can ask for a discount if you show that you're, say, from a poor country.»
community member · from public community chats
Personal opinions of community members from public discussions, not legal advice.
Scholarly articles: related terms
A reference definition, not legal advice. Requirements and procedures depend on your case - verify on uscis.gov.
Did this answer help?