CRIJ 4363: Cybercrime: What is Peer Review

Many professors require that students use peer-reviewed sources in papers and assignments.

• Peer review is a process for evaluating research studies before they are published by an academic journal. These studies typically communicate original research or analysis for other researchers. 

• Articles published in academic and scholarly journals and books published by university presses are typically peer reviewed.

• Many databases offer the option to restrict your search to peer-reviewed articles. If the database you are using does not have this feature, you can verify if the article is peer-reviewed by searching for the journal title where it was published in the Ulrichsweb Serials Directory.  Articles published in peer-reviewed journals will be designated by a referee jersey icon.  So if you see this icon, you will know your article is peer reviewed or refereed (Refereed is just another word for peer review).

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