As John Saultz has pointed out, peer review is “the epistemological foundation that connects the authors and readers of scientific articles.” This is certainly a tedious effort on the part of reviewers, and when done specifically for scholarly journals, it is usually done without compensation. According to a recent study by Anderson, Google Scholar Google Scholar is a search engine that provides an easy way to broadly search scientific literature. The majority of items on Google Scholar are peer-reviewed. The only way to be sure is to locate the journal publisher's website. Provenance and Peer Review: Not commissioned by external peer review. Data sharing statement: The data obtained for the meta-analysis of the present review study were directly extracted from published peer-reviewed articles or via email contact with the authors in the case of Kahn et al. 2016 Yu et al. Nichols et al. 2015. Go to Academic Search Premier and click Publications at the top of the screen. Enter the log name and click Browse. If the journal is included in the database, you will see it in the results list. This will take you to the log information. At the bottom you can see that this journal is peer-reviewed. Student Resource Center - Eli Review. Eli Review is a for-profit suite of teaching and learning tools. Eli was invented by Jeff Grabill, Bill Hart-Davidson, and Mike McLeod, all professors in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University and researchers at the Center for Research on Writing in Digital Environments.