📃Academic Journals

Introduction

Academic journals (sometimes called scholarly journals) are where academic (or scholarly) articles are published. Academic articles are:

• written by academics (often a professor or scholar at a university)

• include original research

• follow a formal structure

• employ an academic writing style

• use citations and references

• are peer-reviewed

Scholarly vs Popular Articles

Feature	Popular Sources	Semi-Academic Sources	Academic Sources
Purpose	Entertain and inform a general audience	Inform with more depth than popular sources; not as detailed as academic	Advances scholarship with original research and in-depth analysis
Audience	General public; MYP Students	Interested non-experts; MYP Students	Scholars and researchers in the field; DP Students
Authors	Journalists	Journalists with subject expertise	Academics
Review Process	Editorial review	Editorial review	Peer Review
Language/Tone	Informal and accessible	More formal than popular sources, but less jargon than academic	Formal and technical, with discipline-specific jargon
Other	Ads	Ads	No Ads.
Publication Schedule	Daily, Weekly, Monthly	Daily, Weekly, Monthly	Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly
References	Rarely cite sources	May include some citations and references	Extensive citations and references
Examples	South China Morning Post, Teen Vogue	New Scientist, Psychology Today, The Economist	The Lancet, Nature,

Reading Academic Articles

YouTube Playlist

Nerdy Stuff

• JSTOR Daily

• Most Cited Journals

• Most Cited Psychology Journals

• Six Reading Habits [Harvard]

Seminal Academic Journal Articles

Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing. One of the most influential papers written on artificial intelligence, and the origin of the idea of the Turing Test. [Cited 22851 times]

More Examples

AI in Academia

• Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect | WIRED

• Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers (nature.com)

• Science journal retracts paper with 'nonsensical' AI images | VentureBeat

• Scientific Fraud in the Age of AI | American Council on Science and Health (acsh.org)

• Here’s What Happens When ChatGPT Writes a Scientific Article | TIME

• AI-generated images and video are here: how could they shape research? (nature.com)

• We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published