Student's Guide

Research Criteria

The mission of Journalist’s Resource is to encourage knowledge-based reporting. To that end, the site features scholarly research on a wide range of important public policy issues. To meet the standards of the Journalist’s Resource website, research must generally be:

• The product of authoritative institutions such as major U.S. universities, research organizations or governmental bodies.
• Based on rigorous research, without bias or ideological motivation.
• Published in a peer-reviewed journal.
• Written in clear language accessible to lay readers.
• Timely and relevant.
• Freely available.

Please contact us if you have suggestions of additional studies, papers or surveys that meet these standards. In addition, if you feel that material that we’ve included doesn’t meet these standards or if better research on a similar topic is available, your feedback would be appreciated.