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I chose an article entitled, Feeding ecology of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada found in the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Library. The article can be found in Marine Environmental Research.
Looking over this article, and from what I learned in our tutorial, I believe this is an academic peer-reviewed research article.
I’ve deemed this article as academic primarily due to the contributing authors and their affiliation with the Biology Department at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada (Figure 1). Two other contributing factors are that the journal this article was published in is considered a research journal (Figure 2) and secondly, TRU Library allows one to be able to refine their search to retrieve academic journals (Figure 3). The article would also be considered academic due to the amount of in-text citations (Figure 4) and the reference list at the end of the article (Figure 5).
I believe the article is peer-reviewed based off of the timeline outlining the manuscript received date, the revision date, and the publication date (Figure 6) and as previously mentioned, I specifically searched for peer-reviewed articles in the TRU Library (Figure 7).
References
Varela, J. L., Spares, A. D., Stokesbury, M. J. W. 2020, October 16. Feeding ecology of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. Marine Environmental Research. V 161. 105087, ISSN 0141-1136. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105087.
