The basic premise of research includes referring to other research to gain the knowledge needed to continue. There are two names for a primary article: one being just that name and the second being the term ‘empirical study’. When reading over the information from Cornell University Library, primary articles are defined as a study that looks to gather information on a topic through both observation and analysis. An example of a primary article can be described as a peer reviewed article which will be defined towards the end of this writing assignment. To discuss primary articles, means the discussion of secondary articles should be brought up. Secondary articles are summaries of individual journals, articles, books, etc.
A review article could almost be like secondary articles. In summary, a review article is a paper that encompasses a multitude of information on a singular topic. The article is then used as a review of that topic, to help boost a researcher’s understanding of the topic before they dive deeper into the process. However, review articles only exist to do just that, any time a review article is in a research process there will need to be more research following on the topic. Review articles, for example, could be beneficial when looking into something for the first time. It gives just enough information to introduce the topic and leaves the rest of the research for articles like primary or secondary articles.
As a basic overview of the general process, peer review is the process of taking your peers’ papers and reading over them in hope to help catch things they didn’t in the beginning. According to Cornell University Library, the tell-tale sign to find out if its peer reviewed is the various revisions of the original draft. Many times, you can go to a journal via the databases and search for the homepage. Once the homepage is found, there should be a description of the journal and IF it is peer reviewed it will state that. Another way of defining peer review would be to know it as a scholarly review. It is when a certain level of research is being reviewed at the same level of other scholars (USGS). Peer reviewed articles, in some databases, will have a certain symbol next to them. This indicated whether the article has been through the complete peer review process.
In a glance, review articles and peer reviewed articles could be assumed to be similar (or even the same thing) but they are not. With reviewed articles there are multiple studies on a topic while peer reviewed it the revision of an original document by the same author. The peer reviewed process is a long journey that ends with an official peer reviewed journal. A review article does not need to go through a process to become ‘official’. In the article with explanations on all of the required information, the example is that many bibliographies of review articles are a major source for peer reviewed works but also primary articles as well.
Two articles were given to read over and explain which one would be the primary article and which one would be the review article. On the point of review article, the The epidemiology and pathogenesis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak would be under that category. Knowing this, the other article Identification of a new human coronavirus can be identified as the primary article. I chose the review article as the article titled The epidemiology and pathogenesis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak because it gave a tremendous overview on the topic but it didn’t have any ‘new discoveries’. It was relaying information found from various sources. As for the primary article, I chose the article titled Identification of a new human coronavirus because it gives new information on the topic as well as the introduction of new discoveries in research.
References
Cornell University Library. “Tutorial: Scholarly Literature Types: Scholarly Literature Types.” LibGuides. Accessed September 8, 2021. https://guides.library.cornell.edu/scholit.
Aragon, Jose R. “Survey Manual.” 502.3 – Fundamental Science Practices: Peer Review, 2016. https://www.usgs.gov/about/organization/science-support/survey-manual/5023-fundamental-science-practices-peer-review.