University:
Montclair State University
Course:
FSHD 304 | Research Methods for Family Science and Human Development
Academic year:

2020
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448

Pages:

1
Author:

Prince Sampson

Discussion Question What is meant by credible, peer-reviewed research? Give examples of credible and noncredible resources. Credible or peer-reviewed research means the research conducted with the help of articles or studies written by experts and published in scholarly or academic journals. Peer-reviewed research is based on the process in which experts review and make suggestions for corrections before publishing the research. Peer-reviewed research written conducted and written by the people who have studied while reviewed by the two or more experts and these articles are taken from the sources referred to as credible sources or research. The rationale of conducting peerreviewed research is to avoid any errors and bias from the entire paper. Besides, peer-reviewed articles are free of errors therefore reviewing them before conducting research is useful. In the scientific field, peer-reviewed research is an important component of academic writing which ensures that the research is accurate and done by experts. Peer-reviewed research serves as a filter to provide trusted and appropriate results. Credible resources are reliable, accurate, and trustworthy, the criteria to determine credible resources include the “authority, currency, content, bias, and accuracy. Examples of credible sources include scholarly articles, books, resources that are up to date, available in the university’s library and government websites. There are many online scholarly databases for online resources include PubMed, JSTOR, ERIC, NCBI, CINHAL, etc. Government websites include “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”, The National Bureau of Economic Research”, US Census Bureau”. While unreliable or non-credible sources include old data, social media posts, blogs, newspapers, magazines, articles without citations, Wikipedia, personal websites, online resources that end with html, .org, and .com (Davis, 2021).