Journal Articles – An Overview

Your academic could tell you that you’re needed to use articles for your analysis paper. You scan articles all the time in magazines—but recognize that such articles are not quite the sort your academic is longing for. A journal article is the answer to your requirements. So then, what is a journal article? These are reports written by researchers who specialise in specific fields, like Indian Literature, Keynesian Economics, and Educational Psychology. When scientists have data or an experiment to add to the already available literature in their field of study, they usually prepare a write up of their findings and have it published in a scientific journal. Before the publication, these articles typically go through a process of peer review. Journal Articles are also called Scientific Articles, Peer-Reviewed Articles, or Scholarly Research Articles. Taken together, journal articles in a particular field are usually denoted as ‘The Literature’.

Journal articles are frequently primary research articles, although they can also be review articles. As these articles are specific, meticulously referenced and peer-reviewed, they the best place to look for information on previous research on your topic of analysis. Without adequate knowledge in the field, journal articles can be difficult to understand – however, you do not need to understand an entire article to be able to get valuable information from it.

Reading a journal article could also lead you to variety of alternative journal articles on closely connected topics. You simply need to mark the references and citations that you may be interested in and use them later. The publishing of such articles enable scholars to communicate their research with other experts and to stay current by reading publications of other scholars. Consequently, scholarly journals produce a community of specialists all of whom are able to participate in knowledge sharing platforms in a given academic field. This rigorous evaluation process, for these articles, ensures a much higher standard and allows other scholars to rely on these articles for their own research.

Okay, so where are these articles hiding? Scientific research databases – more commonly known as online journal directories – are the places to visit for such journal articles. JournalDirectory.in is one such database. You can use these databases for a variety of tasks. They are useful in locating journal articles, research reports and other resources related to specific subject areas. They are also very useful for locating current information unavailable in books.