I have always found it either to read 5-10 shorter, footnoted SWJ articles, or web-articles linked into Council threads, then to try to busy out a longer, but perhaps more scholarly work.

An SWJ article may suffer from a lack of peer review, but the best ones at least point me in the right direction to dig into additional details elsewhere, and for the azimuth they provide, some can be priceless.

In many cases, the authors have more current BOG perspective as well.