Scholarly publications are written by experts in a particular field and they go through a formal review process (which might include peer review) before publication. A journal or journal article is a good example of a scholarly publication.
Popular publications are written for a general audience and may be written and edited by people who do not have subject expertise. Blogs, magazines, and news sources are examples of popular publications.
Here’s an infographic that shows characteristics (left column) of popular (center column) and scholarly (right column) articles. The differences illustrated here are relevant to most types of scholarly and popular sources.
Scholarly & Popular Articles by adstarkel. Used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
