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Academic researchers are most often the authors of scholarly sources, and their intention is to convey the results of their research. If the text is primary literature, the authors are reporting the results of their original experiments. In scientific disciplines, because several researchers may work on an experiment, scholarly articles often have more than one author. Popular sources more commonly have one author, and for some articles no author is listed, so the absence of an author's name is a good sign that you have a popular source. When a popular source does list an author, the author's academic and professional background is frequently in journalism, so the person who writes an article in Newsweek about sibling rivalry will most likely be a journalist, not a psychologist who does behavioral research. However, the authors of an article about sibling rivalry in The British Journal of Developmental Psychology will be the people who actually conducted the research. It is important to keep in mind that academic researchers may also write popular articles, so you need to consider more than just an author's credentials when assessing your sources.