Answered By: Ask a Librarian
Last Updated: Feb 24, 2020    

If you would like to check whether an article is peer reviewed or not, you will have to look at the information of the journal or publications in which the article is published. Check ‘About this Journal’, ‘Notes for Authors’ or ‘Author Guidelines’.

See the following example:

Usually, academic journal articles are peer reviewed. If you are using DISCOVER, you may select certain source types to limit your results. There is also a ‘peer reviewed’ limiter in DISCOVER.