Finding Scientific Articles
Evaluation criteria
The criteria listed below may serve as guidelines for assessing the reliability of documents:
- Author(s) notoriety;
- Author(s) affiliation(s);
- Relevance of the references cited to support the argumentation;
- Currency of information according to the year of publication or copyright ©;
- Information accuracy;
- Quality of the presentation and writing (form and content);
- Level of language used: excessively or insufficiently technical;
- Inclusion of graphs, histograms, schemes, and images.
Example of a Scientific Article Evaluation Chart
Useful Links
> Determining the reliability and accuracy of information (in French only)
