Scholars most often communicate about their work as well as collectively record their discipline's progress of knowledge creation by publishing articles in academic or scholarly journals. Sometimes they publish opinions, letters, and brief synopses of current work being done in their field, but most often they are publishing the results they have obtained from their research. Many of these research articles are 'peer-reviewed', which means the articles are checked and critiqued (as a form of 'quality control') by several of a researcher's peers prior to being officially published.

Use these specialized databases to more quickly find articles about global warming, climate change, and environmental science.

• Climate Change Economics

  Publishes theoretical and empirical papers devoted to analyses of mitigation, adaptation, impacts, and other issues related to the policy and management of greenhouse gases.
• Climate Policy

  International journal publishing high quality research into climate-change policy, including adaptation, negotiations and impact.
• Climatic Change

  "Provides a means of exchange among those working in different disciplines on problems related to climatic variations."
• Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change

  Covers topics in climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective.
• World Watch

  "Examines the connections between human economies and the health of the natural environment by monitoring global changes in climate, forest cover, population, poverty, water resources, biological diversity and other major trends."