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scholarly

adjective

• involving or relating to serious academic study. 

        "scholarly journals"

synonyms: academic, educational, scholastic, professorial, pedagogic, pedagogical

       "a young woman aspiring to a scholarly career"

• having or showing knowledge, learning, or devotion to academic pursuits. 

       "a scholarly account of the period"

synonyms: learned, erudite, academic, well read, widely read, intellectual, literary, lettered, well educated, knowledgeable, cultured, cultivated, highbrow, studious, bookish, donnish, bluestocking, cerebral; informal egghead; informal pointy-headed; archaic clerkly

       "an earnest, scholarly man"

well researched, painstaking, studious, thorough, detailed, thoroughgoing, comprehensive, exhaustive; well argued, well informed, well reasoned, authoritative.