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PSY 111 McMahon: Scholarly Reading and Materials

Instructions

Please watch the videos and complete the tutorials below to learn more about:

  • What is meant by "peer reviewed" journal articles.
  • How to effectively read scholarly materials.
  • How scholarship functions as a conversation between researchers.

Also, read the information about how you can track a scholarly conversation in the PsycINFO article database.

Peer Review

Tutorial: How to Read Scholarly Materials

Scholarship as a Conversation

Tracking Scholarly Conversations

You can follow the scholarly conversation through time on a given topic by searching for the article in a database called Web of Science. Search for an article you have found by title in Web of Science.

Screenshot showing a documents search in Web of Science set to search by article title.
 
If the article is listed in Web of Science, you will see to the right of the article information the number of citations (or how many times other authors have cited the article in their research) and the number of references (how many articles were cited by the author when they wrote the article). These numbers are links that you can click to see the actual list of reference articles and articles that cited the one you looked up (highlighted in green in the screenshot below).
 
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