Academic, Peer Reviewed, Scholarly, or Referred
These terms express the same idea: a published work has gone through a process in which the work was evaluated for quality and contribution to scholarship and then edited.
Publication follows this general process:
1 - Author submits article to journal (general editor).
2 - General editor submits copies to two or three experts (the peers) in the same field as the article.
3 - The experts (peers or referees) then evaluate the article on contribution to scholarship, originality, and currency.
4 - The experts then return the article to the general editor for either publication, editing, or rejection.
5 - The general editor then sends a rejection letter to the author, returns article to author for editing/changing certain points in article (back to start), or edits for publication.
The timeframe from submission to publication varies by journal. It is rarely less than one year.
The editorial and peer review process elevates the quality of the article.
Sources That Might be "Reviewed" or Edited