Review articles (or literature reviews) are a great way to get an overview of a research area, with many references to scholarly and research articles. Review articles undergo peer-review and thus qualify as scholarly articles.
Literature reviews in the biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences
The Annual Review journals are a good source of review articles. Web of Science (see under Scholarly & Peer-reviewed Articles) is also good: do your search and then limit your results to reviews on the left side.
Here are some best bets for finding scholarly articles :
Web of Science Core Collection (1965-present). Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.
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