Scholarly articles or publications are those that have been "both written and presented at a scholarly or academic level" (McAdoo, 2015, p. 204). This information is "typically produced by individuals working in a field or occupation related to the topic of the publication (McAdoo, 2015, p. 204). for example, an article that is published in the academic journal Molecules about the shingles virus (varicella zoster virus) will have very different information and use different terminology than one in the popular magazine Science News. 

Sample articles:

Andrei, G. & Snoeck, R. (2021). Advances and perspectives in the management of Varicella-Zoster virus infections. Molecules, 26(1132), 1132. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26041132

Other key terms:

• • Article: a work of prose, identified by its own title or heading and frequently by its author, in a document that contains many such works; for example, an article in a periodical or encyclopedia.
  • Journal: A periodical, especially one containing scholarly articles and/or disseminating current information on research and development in a particular subject. 
  • Literature review: A comprehensive examination of all published materials on a topic.
  • Literature search: An exhaustive search for all publications on a specific topic.
  • Peer review: The process by which one or more experts in a field read a manuscript, generally of an article or book, to determine whether it should be published. This is usually a blind process in which neither the reviewers nor the author are aware of the others’ identity. 
  • Research methods: Techniques used by individuals to perform scientific investigations following systematic processes. These investigations are conducted by researchers, who can be specialists in a number of different fields. 
  • Scholarly communication: The process by which the results of research are shared among researchers, typically including scholarly literature, personal communication, presentation at conferences , and publishing in scholarly journals.
  • Scholarly literature: A publication suitable for an academic audience.