Peer review is a process that some scholarly journal publishers use to ensure the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. Peer reviewed journals are sometimes called refereed journals. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed/refereed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship and its relevance and importance to the field. This means that when an article is finally published in a peer reviewed publication, there is a consensus among experts that the information disseminated in that article is of the highest quality.
An article in a peer reviewed journal is always considered a credible source of information.
All peer reviewed journals are scholarly, but not all scholarly journals are peer reviewed. Scholarly journals are published by academic organizations to report research in the field. Many, but not all, are peer reviewed. Scholarly journals publish articles written by experts and directed towards a specific audience, but they may not require that these articles undergo the review process. Also, peer reviewed journals will sometimes contain articles that are not peer-reviewed, such as book reviews and editorials. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES of PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS:
