Friday, January 27, 2012

Are Popular Science or Scientific American "peer reviewed journal"?

As I understand it, neither are peer-reviewed journals. They publish a wide variety of articles, but they are not generally view as scientific journals that are reviewed or cited. Scientific American is a great gateway into some cool, new research or findings, but since it does not publish actual experiments and results, it doesn't fall under this category. It's one of the more trusted science magazines out there, but ultimately it is still geared for the public rather than the scientific community.

Try looking through some databases; they often give you a lot of articles in all sorts of fields. I'm not sure what grade level you're looking at and which databases you have access to, but personally I find Scholar's Portal and Web of Science are both amazing resources.



Hope that helps!Are Popular Science or Scientific American "peer reviewed journal"?
Well, if you look in Wikipedia about Science (the journal), it is peer-reviewed. I think Scientific American is not.

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