Scholarly Journals
and
Popular Magazines
By
Aparna Zambare

What is the Difference?
 Scholarly:  Popular:
 Authors are  Authors are
authorities in their magazine staff
fields/specialists/ members or free
experts/scholars/ lance writers/
researchers generalists
 Include author’s  Often exclude
credentials author’s credentials

Difference….
 Scholarly:  Popular:
 Authors cite their  Authors mention
sources in sources but seldom
endnotes, cite them in formal
footnotes, or bibliographies
bibliographies

Difference ….
 Scholarly:  Popular:
 Articles go through  No peer-review
peer-review process
process
 Contain numerous
 Almost no advertisements and
advertising and color
color

Difference ….
 Scholarly:  Popular:
 Articles inform or  Articles normally
report research entertain
 Illustrations – in  Illustrations -
the form of charts, Numerous and
diagrams, or colorful to add
graphs to explain marketing appeal
research

Difference ….
 Scholarly:  Popular:
 Language – Use of  Language – Simple
jargon specific to and everyday
the particular  Rarely contain
discipline abstracts
 Often have an
abstract at the
beginning of the
article

Difference ….
 Scholarly:  Popular:
 Often published by  Published for profit
professional  Indexed in popular
organization or indexes
university
 Indexed in subject
indexes, such as
MLA, PsychInfo . . .