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How can you tell if an article has been peer reviewed? One of the students in my Social Science Literacy class asked: how can I tell if a published article is peer reviewed? The student assumed that a having gone through peer review indicates research quality. The student is not alone. Many people…

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How can you tell if an article has been peer reviewed? One of the students in my Social Science Literacy class asked: how can I tell if a published article is peer reviewed? The student assumed that a having gone through peer review indicates research quality. The student is not alone. Many people think that ‘peer reviewed’ means that the quality is good. Unfortunately, you cannot blindly assume that articles published in are reliable, even when they are published in prestigious journals such as "Nature" and "Science" or when they are written by authors from expensive universities such as Harvard. https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/how-can-you-tell-if-an-article-has-been-peer-reviewed/