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a) Source: Article on “Social and Ecological High Influential Factors in
Community Gardens Innovation: An Empirical Survey in Italy”
Rusciano V, Civero G, Scarpato D. Social and Ecological High Influential Factors in Community Gardens Innovation: An Empirical Survey in Italy. Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland). 2020;12:4651.
b) This source is an Academic peer reviewed-research material
c) –Academic because it is written by experts in their field, and their article have in-text citations, and references at the end. Authors: Vincenzo Rusciano, Gennaro Civero and Debora Scarpato * are connected to the Department of Economic and Legal Studies, University of Naples Parthenope. Also see a picture below.
–Peer-reviewed: In the Author contribution they mention the reviewers of the article. See evidence below.
“Author Contributions: Conceptualization, D.S.; Founding acquisition, D.S.; Investigation, V.R.; Methodology,V.R.; Project administration, D.S.; Supervision, D.S.; Validation, G.C.; Visualization, G.C.; Writing—original draft,G.C., V.R.; Writing: review & editing, C.G., V.R.; All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.” copied from the article.
-Research material because the paper is comprised of methods, as well as the results of the study. In methods they used sampling, interviews and questionnaires. And multiple tables were used in the presentation of data. Here is one of the tables used in the results section.
Also, see from pages 5-11 for evidence of methodology and results from the article.
Looks like an article that might be relevant for your study. Great job on your post. I believe it is peer-reviewed though the review part you reference is which of the authors helped with review and editing. Often you will find reference to anonymous reviewers in the Acknowledgements section.