Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines

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Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines

• Scholarly Journals
• Peer review
• Little advertising
• Articles have abstracts
• Professional associations or academic
  institutions
• Written by experts
• For experts practitioners
• Often in-depth
• Factual, research-based

• Popular Magazines
• Not peer reviewed
• Significant advertising
• No abstracts or bibliography
• Color photographs glossy paper
• For general public
• Look for bias
• Relatively short articles
• Introduction to topic