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Example: Here are some examples of scholarly journal titles:

Studies in European History
American Historical Review
Annals of Internal Medicine
Quarterly Review of Film Studies

Journal of the American Medical Association
Advances in Biochemistry

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Caution A periodical that has the word “journal” in its title is not necessarily a scholarly
journal. For example, Ladies Home Journal is not a scholarly journal, even though the
term appears in its title.

Figure 10.1: Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law – A Scholarly Journal

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Articles in scholarly journals are written by highly educated people (often holding Master’s
or PhD degrees) who are often experts, practitioners and teachers in specialized academic
fields. They write articles as a way to communicate with other scholars and add to the
knowledge base of their discipline, always carefully citing their sources in footnotes and/
or bibliographies. Often, they are reporting the results of original research or
experimentation.
Many scholarly journals will not publish an article until it has been reviewed by an
editorial board to insure that it meets certain standards of scholarly quality. A publication

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