Scholarly Journal Analysis

Scholarly journals are also referred to as peer review journals. According to Lloyd Sealy Library, it is called peer review “because the reviewers specialize in the same scholarly area as the author, they are considered the author’s peers”. Additionally, scholarly journals can be can be found in online library databases such as EBSCO, Google Scholar and even your public library online as well as print. These articles are written by specialists in a field and are usually more in-depth then articles you find in newspapers and magazines (pioneeread.wordspress.com). Although there is a standard format when writing journals and / or scholarly reports; however, not all scholarly journals are alike. I’ve printed and reviewed two journals from EBSCO database and I’ve discovered some similarities and difference.
Before diving immediately into the similarities, here is what I’ve discovered to be expected in each article. Pioneeread.wordpress.com states the following should be present in
In both articles, the titles were lengthy, perhaps not as lengthy as I would expect; neither titles exceed ten words. Indeed, in both articles, the names of the authors were present. Unfortunately, the titles and credentials of the authors were omitted in both reports. Professor Audrey Green, Psychology Professor at the College of New Rochelle Brooklyn Campus mentioned during one of her lectures, that the DOI numbers should also be present in scholarly journals. I did notice in the Munchausen Syndrome report, the DOI numbers were present on the top left hand corner. However, this was not the case in the Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome report; no DOI number was present. The only indication that the report was from a credible scholarly journal was that it stated the name of the journal, the date it was published, the volume number and the issue on the bottom right hand corner of the