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noun

  • An academic work, such as a journal article or book, written by experts in a particular field and typically subject to a peer-review process before publication.

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One scholarly source I read at the time argued that the language of the novel drew from the terminology of economics, shaping the metaphors of the financial/romantic negotiations underlying the story.

From Time • Oct. 5, 2015

Whether Philip ever saw the manuscript is unknown, but Poma de Ayala's work—one of the few non- European accounts of Inka life—is now a fundamental scholarly source.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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  • academic journal
  • primary research
  • academic text
  • expert-backed study
  • the good stuff (for research)

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  • random website
  • blog post
  • uncle's Facebook post
  • bro science
  • crowdsourced entry

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