Resistance to new scientific ideas and development
Introduction
Table of content
Section A
Section B
Section C
Introduction:
In this part I will be talking about the types of professional journals and what they are.
Academic journals are often quite specialised and will be mainly composed of long articles reporting
upon research projects, possibly with some book reviews or letters commenting on previous
research. Articles appearing in academic journals will often be peer-reviewed - this means the
information you find will often be more reliable as the information it contains will have been
checked by other professionals in the field.
Professional journals are similar in most respects to academic journals but may be more practice
oriented. Some may also be less formal than their academic counterparts and may include updates
and general information for practitioners in the relevant field. Professional journals may also include
some job advertisements for professionals in that field. Some articles which appear in professional
journals may have been peer reviewed like those in more academic journals.
Trade journals will include a wide range of information specific to the trade sector covered, including
product and price information, job advertisements, scientific or technical articles and reports and
possibly directory information.
Magazines differ slightly to journals in that their intended audience is broader, and so the
information they contain is often written for anyone to understand and more general in scope. As
with trade journals, they may include a lot of advertisements. Their main purpose is to report on
current or recent affairs, but they can often have useful information or opinions expressed in them.
Ejournals or electronic journals and emagazines may be either electronic versions of existing print
journals or may be journals which only exist in electronic form and have no print counterpart (such
journals may not be refereed and so this is always worth checking). They have similar advantages
and disadvantages to those of printed journals, although may sometimes be published quicker than
their print counterpart.
https://my.cumbria.ac.uk/Student-Life/Learning/Journals/Journal-types/
Section A:
When scientists send new papers to journals, the editors of those journals send the papers to other
scientists who work in the same area for peer review. A journal will have an editor-in-chief, who will
have several associate editors working with him. All these people are usually professors and experts
in the field of the journal.
Peer reviewers criticize the papers sent to them by the journal editor. Peer reviewers are often
Introduction
Table of content
Section A
Section B
Section C
Introduction:
In this part I will be talking about the types of professional journals and what they are.
Academic journals are often quite specialised and will be mainly composed of long articles reporting
upon research projects, possibly with some book reviews or letters commenting on previous
research. Articles appearing in academic journals will often be peer-reviewed - this means the
information you find will often be more reliable as the information it contains will have been
checked by other professionals in the field.
Professional journals are similar in most respects to academic journals but may be more practice
oriented. Some may also be less formal than their academic counterparts and may include updates
and general information for practitioners in the relevant field. Professional journals may also include
some job advertisements for professionals in that field. Some articles which appear in professional
journals may have been peer reviewed like those in more academic journals.
Trade journals will include a wide range of information specific to the trade sector covered, including
product and price information, job advertisements, scientific or technical articles and reports and
possibly directory information.
Magazines differ slightly to journals in that their intended audience is broader, and so the
information they contain is often written for anyone to understand and more general in scope. As
with trade journals, they may include a lot of advertisements. Their main purpose is to report on
current or recent affairs, but they can often have useful information or opinions expressed in them.
Ejournals or electronic journals and emagazines may be either electronic versions of existing print
journals or may be journals which only exist in electronic form and have no print counterpart (such
journals may not be refereed and so this is always worth checking). They have similar advantages
and disadvantages to those of printed journals, although may sometimes be published quicker than
their print counterpart.
https://my.cumbria.ac.uk/Student-Life/Learning/Journals/Journal-types/
Section A:
When scientists send new papers to journals, the editors of those journals send the papers to other
scientists who work in the same area for peer review. A journal will have an editor-in-chief, who will
have several associate editors working with him. All these people are usually professors and experts
in the field of the journal.
Peer reviewers criticize the papers sent to them by the journal editor. Peer reviewers are often
