What is an Academic or Scholarly Journal?

What is an Academic or Scholarly Journal?: This short video by John Bond of Riverwinds Consulting looks at what an academic journal is. MORE VIDEOS on what a journal is can be found at:    • What is an Academic or Scholarly Journal?   FIND OUT more about John Bond and his publishing consulting practice at www.RiverwindsConsulting.com SEND IDEAS for John to discuss on Publishing Defined. Email him at [email protected] or see http://www.PublishingDefined.com CONNECT Twitter:   / johnhbond   LinkedIn:   / johnbondnj   Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113338584... Goodreads:   / john-bond   YouTube:    / johnbond   BOOKS by John Bond: The Story of You: http://www.booksbyjohnbond.com/the-st... You Can Write and Publish a Book: http://www.booksbyjohnbond.com/you-ca... Hi there. I am John Bond from Riverwinds Consulting and this is Publishing Defined. Today I am going to go discuss the broadest of topics: what is a peer-reviewed or a scholarly journal. A journal is a scholarly periodical that is different than a magazine. A journal is geared toward academic pursuits and is meant to inform and educate. The publication is usually peer reviewed which means experts in the specific field review the content prior to publication to determine if it is worthy of publication, meaning it adds to the particular field of study. The peer review is usually blind which means the article authors and the reviewers are reviewing the content and are not told who the author or reviewer is. Journals may be subscription based, or they may be sent to all the members of a particular association society as part of their dues or they may be open access, meaning they are free to be read by anyone at any time. A journal may be in paper and in digital form or, increasingly, in just digital form. Journals are likely to be less reliant on advertising income versus magazines, supposedly making them less influenced by advertisers. A journal is composed of articles which are authored by experts and outsiders from the journal, as opposed to staff written articles in magazines. There are many different types of articles some of which include review articles, research articles, articles from supplements, letters, case reports, survey article, position papers, columns or departments, and many more. The journal normally has an Information or Guidelines for Authors which details what type of articles that journal is interested in, what format submissions need to be in, and how to submit an article; among other things. Articles usually include the authors credentials and contact information to establish the authors credibility to discuss the topic. Articles can be lengthy. Journals are very interested in being included in such places as Google Scholar and in abstracting and indexing services as Pub Med and many, many others. Journals also are interested in metrics such as article downloads, citations in other articles, Altmetrics, and others that help determine which articles are having significant impact. Journals can be found in many academic disciplines such as STM, or science/technical/medicine, law, engineering, social sciences, and the humanities, as well as other areas of scholarly communications. Well that’s it. Hit the Like button below if you enjoyed this video. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel or click on the playlist to see more videos about academic journals and the articles in them. And make comments below or email me with questions. Thank so much and take care.