Written Assignment 1

Written Assignment #1

A primary review article, also known as a original or empirical review article, is a article that has original information. Most likely gained through experimentation and written by someone directly involved in the event. They often have similar formats with an introduction, meathods, results, and discussions. You may also notice the perspective of the authors, as they may speak in first person or explain the events in a first-person view. They will also most likely have the information of the authors common or conflicting interests on the information in the study. These reports are peer reviewed and edited before publication.

A secondary review article, also known as a secondary source, usually summarize the information, and compare it with other findings and studies. Secondary review articles are often easier to read, as they are reviews of other pieces of work. They also do not have a set format for explaining information, such as introduction, methods, results.  Some can contain more accurate or up to date information by comparing results from other studies. The wording may include things like “another report showed”, which reveal it is a secondary review article.  This does not mean they cannot reference original information from primary review articles, peer reviewed articles, or be peer reviewed themselves.

Peer review articles could be both primary and secondary review articles. Peer reviewed articles are articles that are reviewed by professional editors on a board before publication. This is a way to minimize errors such as spelling mistakes and wordy sentences, down to misinformation and citations. The first step is submitting the article to a publication, where it then goes through an editor who declares if it is a suitable article for their journal. Then it is sent to a group of experts to be peer reviewed before it is approved and sent back to the journal. The journal editors have the final say before publication. Articles will often give a short note if it has been peer reviewed, but they may still contain non peer reviewed articles as sources.

Although it is easy to get mixed up, the difference between a peer review article, the peer review process, and a peer review journal is simple. A review article could be primary or secondary as described above. A peer reviewed journal could be either, but the difference is that it was handed off by the author, to a group of professional editors at a publication in the field of the content, where it goes through the peer review process. The group of reviewers is picked by the journal based on their expertise about the article. Then they go through checking for mistakes in both literature, and content. Making sure the process is detailed, and the information and data match what the author is writing. The journal is reviewed and then possibly published or sent back for more editing by the author.

From my reading the “Identification of new human corona virus” is the primary review article. Most obviously because it is structured as a primary article. With an introduction, methods, results, and discussion. This one was also written as a first-person primary review article. This study shows their data and then explains the process they took to gain it. This means that the “Journal of Autoimmunity” is the secondary review article. I also realized this because after each piece of information there was a reference to other articles.  Original articles will not show this sum of references as the information was found by the authors and is not new information.  The Journal of Autoimmunity also actively states sentences such as “another report showed” or “in this review”.

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