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KINS 2262: Health Story Assignment

Finding Peer-Reviewed Information

What is peer-review?

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Search across multiple journal collections all in once place. Use filters and the advanced search to narrow your search to peer reviewed articles from sociological journals.

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Article Databases

You can also search inside specific article databases to find peer reviewed articles. Here are some good databases for sociological topics:

Sociological Journals

For this assignment, you need to find sociological research articles. While some journals are explicitly sociological, many are interdisciplinary in nature, publishing articles from a range of disciplines that may include (but not exclusively focus on) sociology. If you find an article and are unsure if it adopts a sociological perspective, you can try the following:

  • Consult the departmental affiliation of the author(s)
  • Read the article abstract to see if the author(s) explicitly state their discipline
  • Examine the theoretical perspectives employed in the research paper

The best way to find journal articles on a topic is to search in a database that contains sociological journals, but you can also go directly to a journal to find articles. If you want to browse sociological journals or journals (or journals that publish sociological research articles), try the following publications (most of which are included in the databases listed above):

Sociological Journals

Multidisciplinary journals that publish sociological research