The ACS style guide :effective communication of scientific information.
Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishersWhat are peer-reviewed articles and journals, and why do so many professors want students to use them? Peer-reviewed - often called scholarly - articles, are ones written by experts (often professors and scientists) in a particular field and published in journals whose editors are also experts - their peers - in the field.
The concept originated in the mid-1660s in England and was meant to control the authority of scientific publications, chiefly medicine. It has since become de rigueur for publishers in all the disciplines pursued in the academic and professional world. The editors review an article before they publish it to see if it meets their standards of research and scholarship. If they deem the information to be new, interesting and accurate, they publish the article.
Trends in scholarship, as well as academic politics, can influence what is selected for publication. Generally speaking, the information found in peer-reviewed journals reflects careful work and applied, professional expertise and can be trusted more consistently than articles that do not undergo such review.
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