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I have selected for this post a journal article from researchers at the Nereus Program, an interdisciplinary ocean research partnership based out of UBC:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17301409
Rebecca G. Asch, William W.L. Cheung, Gabriel Reygondeau, Future marine ecosystem drivers, biodiversity, and fisheries maximum catch potential in Pacific Island countries and territories under climate change, In Marine Policy, 2017, ISSN 0308-597X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.08.015.
The authors of this paper all hold PhDs in ecology-related fields and are oceans researchers at major universities (in addition to the info in the article byline, their academic history is available here: http://www.nereusprogram.org/about/fellows/). The paper is chock-full of citations and has a bibliography. Therefore, I can safely conclude that this is an academic document.
This paper was published in Marine Policy. On inspection of the journal’s website, they employ double-blind peer review.
The authors include sections on their methods and results, which indicates that this is research-based. The entire paper went way over my head, and threw around words like “synthesize” and “overview”, so I may well be wrong.
