What is a Research Article?
RESEARCH Research articles should include a hypothesis, a proposed question. Does the article propose an assumption to be tested? Remember the scientific method. • Research articles should include a methods section, a description of the subjects, procedures and tools used. Does the article describe the process of testing the research question? It should explain who, what, when, where and how the research was conducted. • Research articles should include findings, an explanation of conclusions. Does the article explain what was found after the study? • Research articles should include suggested further research. Does the article give an analysis of the implications from the findings. • Research articles should be peer reviewed. This is a standard preference of most professors. Research articles should be from a peer reviewed journal.
A research article is a written paper that illustrates an outcome of scientific research with supporting clinical data. This differs from other types of informative articles, such as magazine features or research papers, which typically address the topic in a general scope as a means of introduction. A research article, on the other hand, is written by and for researchers for the purpose of making specific findings known to the scientific community at large. In fact, rather than appearing in a consumer or industry publication, a research article is found exclusively in a peer-reviewed scientific or medical journal, such as The Journal of the American Medical Association, for example. Another key difference between other papers and a research article is that the latter strictly presents facts, rather than serve as a letter of opinion or a summary of the existing scientific literature. However, most scientific journals simultaneously publish such letters, as well as reviews of the body o
A research article is a journal article in which researchers present the results of an original research project, experiment or study. Usually this type of article is written by more than one person, since it typically requires a team to design, carry out, and analyze the data from such a research project. This type of article is then published in a journal devoted to the particular field in which the research was performed. Finding Research Articles A good way to begin is by searching general databases that contain periodicals from many different fields. The general databases most widely used here at Grace Library are EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier and Wilson Omnifile, both of which are available through the Grace Library homepage by clicking on the Find Articles link. Both of these databases contain professional journals from many academic disciplines, as well as a wide range of popular magazines. If you need only a small number of research articles, try these databases first. Aft
