How do you recognize international scientific articles?
- Access international databases where the majority of articles are peer reviewed, such as DOAJ, Web of Science, Scopus, and Medline. You will get to know the main international databases in your field during your studies.
- In some international databases, you can search specifically for articles published in peer-reviewed journals so that you narrow your search results with Peer reviewed or Refereed options.
- Also in the Volter database of the University of Turku Library, you can select Peer-reviewed Journals separately, so you can get the results of articles published in international peer-reviewed journals. Note, however, that still not all results are peer-reviewed articles, although the journal mostly contains them. For example, editorials, book reviews, comments, et al., are not peer-reviewed articles.
- You can also check the journal's own website and other publication information. However, they are not always reliable, so it is worth evaluating the reliability of data from other sources.
How do you recognize domestic scientific articles?
- You can search for the latest Finnish author research articles on the Research.fi page, which has the option to narrow you search to Peer-reviewed Publications.
- Furthermore, JUFO Portal can help you to identify domestic scientific journals. JUFO Portal, or Publication Forum, is a classification of publication channels created by the Finnish scientific community to support the quality assessment of academic research. The portal allows you to search scientific journals, series, conferences and book publishers evaluated by the Publications Forum. Keep in mind that even if a journal is classified as scientific, all articles published in it may not be.
- You can also check the journal's own website and other publication information. However, they are not always reliable, so it is worth evaluating the reliability of data from other sources.
Google Scholar and other so-called academic search engines
- There are also some so-called academic search engines that are focused on scientific knowledge retrieval. Keep in mind, however, that if you use any of them, you must be particularly careful in the assessment of sources.
- Such search engines include e.g. Google Scholar, BASE, CORE, Semantic Scholar and RefSeek.
