primary articles vs. review articles
A primary article is an article with research conducted by the author or authors. These articles do not typically use review articles as a source; the information published is the research of the author/authors. However, the author/authors may choose to use secondary articles of prior research to further dive into their own research. Primary articles are often peer-reviewed by people or professionals that deal with the subject.
A review article is an article that will summarize findings on specific topics from papers that have already been published by an author or authors. Review articles focus on the published research, no new research is often provided. These articles will often pose questions for further findings on the subject being discussed. The purpose of these kind of articles is to summarize the research findings and to further question future findings.
The scientific peer review process is a process where other scientific professionals will review and edit the original research. This process is used to find any scientific mistakes in the article by having multiple people review that article. The scientific peer review process will look at the findings and the surrounding arguments to look at the validity of the scientific research. This is done before the final publication of an article to ensure that the scientific research is displayed efficiently and effectively.
A review article summarizes the findings of published research work. Review articles provide no new research but will provide questions for further research. The peer review process is done before the final publication of an article, people educated in the subject will work to review the findings of the research. Peer reviewed journals are looked as as reliable due to the peer review process.
Between the two articles, “An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2” is the primary article. This articles provides background, methodology, discussions, results, conclusions, etc. The article lists multiple authors and their academic degrees. The article, “COVID-19 vaccine: A recent update in pipeline vaccines, their design and development strategies” is the review article. This article contains multiple in text citations from other authors to provide main point topics from other articles to allow people to form opinions and discuss questions for further research.