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I have to agree that a description for this publication is magazine or professional magazine. As stated earlier, financing is not a concern as it appears to be common practice for academic journals to charge a subscription, unless it is an ""open-access"" journal. However, based on the available ACCU description I am not seeing ""peer review"". As stated above, an academic journal is usually very clear about its peer review process. In addition, a journal's description of its peer review process is clearly recognizable. The description given at the ACCU is hazy or fuzzy at best, but personally, I do not think it indicates a peer review process. Without a peer review process this cannot qualify as an academic journal. As Headbomb pointed out, it may be reviewed by peers and is of high quality, but it does not appear to be  a formal academic peer review. It might even be described as a ""professional-technical"" magazine. Here is an article about an actual peer reviewed magazine Computer (magazine), from the IEEE Computer Society. Here is an online description of the magazine , and notice that ""peer-reviewed"" is part of the description along with its coverage. Here is a paragraph description of the review process as part of the author guidelines;  . Instructions for reviewers of this magazine are given here; ."