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RMP 612: Therapeutic Communication and Facilitation Techniques in TR (UNH Durham)

Information and resources for Prof. Patricia Craig's course

Scholarly & Peer Reviewed Articles

Scholarly (aka academic) articles are written by and for academics, researchers, and experts in the specific topic or broader subject area of the article.

Peer reviewed (aka refereed) articles are those which have been reviewed prior to publication by other experts in the topic of the article. Often reviewers are external (not members of the journal's editorial staff or board).

Is it Peer Reviewed?

If you do not see the information in the database record for the article, check Ulrichsweb.

  • Journals that are peer-reviewed will have a striped referee's shirt in that column.
  • Not all articles in a peer-reviewed journal are peer-reviewed! Only research articles with a list of references are peer-reviewed.

Article Purposes/Types

Reports original research or experimentation

  • Empirical: uses data collected by the article's authors themselves or by others (for example, US Census data) (Example)

Critically surveys and analyzes the current state of published research on a particular topic; doesn't include original research

  • Includes narrative literature reviews, systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-synthesis (Example)

Describes one or more theories, frameworks, models, etc. and tends not to include empirical data 

  • May describe development of a theoretical approach, compare theories, or discuss issues surrounding a theory (Example)

Comments on or offers a perspective or opinion on a topic; doesn't require original research

  • May appear as an article in a column, editorial, letter to the editor, etc. (Example)