Google Scholar doesn’t let you filter results by peer review, so it’s not our recommended search tool when you’re required to find peer‑reviewed journal articles.
Use our 'Connecting Google Scholar to Federation University Library' to easily check if articles in Google Scholar are peer-reviewed and accessible.
Alternatively, you can manually copy and paste the article title into Quicksearch and look for the peer-reviewed icon.
That said, if you do find an article in Google Scholar that is not available through Quicksearch, you can still manually check whether it comes from a peer‑reviewed journal by following these steps:
- Copy the name of the journal (for example, The Review of Corporate Finance Studies).
- Go to Ulrich’s Periodicals
- Paste the journal title into the search box.
- Locate the journal in the results table.
- If you see the refereed journal icon
, this confirms the journal is peer‑reviewed.