Journal

Scholarly journals are magazines published regularly (often quarterly or four times a year), containing research papers by scholars and scientists. Every discipline supports numerous journals, and hundreds have their complete back files online at JSTOR. Each journal has an editor and an editorial board and a pool of referees, who are established scholars. They vet every submitted article for quality control. The process is called "peer review". Major journals typically reject ten articles for every one accepted, and the accepted ones usually must be revised to meet the criticisms of the referees.

Congress

Under the Constitution, the Senate (and House) is required to keep a Journal of its official proceedings, such as motions agreed to and votes taken. The Journal does not contain Senate debates. Senate rules stipulate that different Journals be kept for legislative and executive (treaties and nominations) proceedings, as well as for confidential legislative proceedings and proceedings when the Senate sits as a court for impeachment of high Federal officials.

Journal as another name for a diary

See also: Diary

A journal is another name for a diary which is a written and/or audiovisual memorabilic record with entries organized by date. The process of maintaining a diary is referred to as journaling. According to Sarah Bence, OTR/L, "Journaling as a therapeutic activity is different than keeping a diary."

Oftentimes, when a journal is kept by a woman it is referred to as a diary, but journals that are kept by men are referred to as journals.

Famous journalers include: Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, John D. Rockefeller, Anne Frank, Louisa May Alcott, Bob Dylan, Dorothy Day, George Patton, Buckminster Fuller and Marcus Aurelius.