<P> Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship . Most academic work is published in academic journal article , book or thesis form . The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the Internet is often called `` grey literature '' . Most scientific and scholarly journals , and many academic and scholarly books , though not all , are based on some form of peer review or editorial refereeing to qualify texts for publication . Peer review quality and selectivity standards vary greatly from journal to journal , publisher to publisher , and field to field . </P>
what process do research articles undergo prior to publication in scientific journals
peer review editorial refereeing