Scholarly/Peer Reviewed articles are published original research studies that have been written by experts in the field and then reviewed by peer experts before publication.
Scholarly articles are published in academic journals for every discipline. For Public Policy and Administration, a common academic publisher is ASPA (American Society for Public Administration). Some other common large academic publishers include Oxford University Press, SAGE, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and Wiley. They each may have hundreds of journal titles that publish scholarly research.
Scholarly articles are published to disseminate current research across disciplines which fosters scholarly discussions and generates new theories or methodologies.
Common ways to identify a scholarly article:
The best way is to locate the journal on the publisher's website and read the journal summary. For example, see this image of The American Review of Public Administration. The summary includes the phrase "elite scholarly peer-reviewed journal."
Almost all University Libraries databases contain a check-box that limits your search results to just scholarly peer-reviewed articles.
In EBSCO databases, you can limit to Academic Journals and check-off "Peer Reviewed" when you start your search:
In Library Search (the search box on the libraries' home page), select articles and the Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed limit:
