Science Articles

Science magazine with a cover of glaciers and the title "Melting Away"

Scientific researchers communicate with each other through articles. Reading scientific articles is a way to participate in discussions about current biology research. Science articles include:

Information about the Author(s)
An Abstract or one-paragraph summary of the article
An overview of the study Methods. Sharing the study methods gives the readers a chance to scrutinize the study and reproduce the study themselves.
A Discussion by the author(s) of the Results of their study.
A list of all the sources Referenced in the article.

Science articles are full of information. They can be dense and hard to read. Shorter articles and websites are a great place to start, but if you want to see how research is done and access current discussions among scientific researchers, you will need to access science articles.

Primary Research Articles

Primary research articles include original research and are written by the scientist(s) that did the research study.

This brief (1:38) video provides and overview of how to identify primary research articles.

Links to an external site.

Citations & Attributions

Cover of Science Links to an external site. (2023, January 6)

Video: Primary Research Articles Links to an external site. in the Sciences uploaded to YouTube 2013 by SteenbockLibrarians.