Introduction to Scientific Journal Literature Video

Scientists communicate the results from their research by having their work published in articles science journals

Scientific journal literature is the primary literature of the sciences (current advances can be found within them)

Primary Research Articles

Research Article

Original research results

First publication form of this research

Similar layout to a science laboratory report

Method

Introduction

Abstract

Results

Discussion

References

Does not include scientific review articles

Starting point of information on the decided topic

Review articles

Peer reviewed by others in the same field overlook before publishing

Published- whether in a physical journal or online journals and indexed in a data base

Note: many review articles will say somewhere on the first page or title, if they are are a review article

The authors of the literature have done the experiment themselves

Authors of the literature have not done the experiment(s) themselves, and are really only overlooking what happened and the recorded data/observations.

Not all research articles are considered primary research, there is also secondary and tertiary