Document from “View Point” from 2003 American Chemical Society
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es0325720
To begin I examined whether the text had been written by an expert in the field which it had been. It was written by Nico Van Straalen who is a professor of animal ecology at The University of Amsterdam.
- I then checked if it contained in text citations which it did.
- I then checked if it contained a biography of all the sources used in the article, which it did.
This then resulted in the article being classified as academic material.
- I then reviewed the article and found that it had 2 referees review the material before publication.
- Kees van Gestel Professor of Ecotoxicology of Soil Ecosystems at the University of Amsterdam
- Herman Eijsackers, Professor of Environment and Nature at the University of Leiden.
- This document does not report the results of a field or lab study completed by the author and so this document would be classified as a Academic, peer-reviewed, review material.