original research
Firsthand scholarly inquiry
Original research is investigation that produces new knowledge rather than summarizing or synthesizing existing sources.
In academic contexts, it involves gathering primary data, running experiments, or developing novel analysis: Her dissertation involved original research on voter behavior.
Wikipedia famously prohibits original research, requiring all claims to cite published sources—a policy that distinguishes encyclopedic compilation from scholarly contribution.
- primary sourceUnmediated evidence from events
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- discoveryAct of finding something
- groundbreakingIntroducing radical new ideas
- cutting edgeMost advanced currently available
new ground · novel · methodology · experiment · lab work · data · peer review · thesis · dissertation · findings · laboratory · fieldwork · raw data · innovation · breakthrough · empirical · investigation · scholarly
- Academic Papersjournal articles, peer-reviewed articles, review articles, dissertations, theses
- journal publishingeditor in chief, review article, managing editor, case study, associate editor
- Medical Literaturemedical journal, journal article, clinical trial, case study, meta-analysis
- research papersjournal article, scholarly article, dissertation, introduction, conclusion
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- academic journalsNature, peer-reviewed journal, scientific publications, scholarly articles, online journals
original researchliterature review
Analysis of prior scholarship
meta-analysis · derivative work · review article · summary · synthesis
original researchpure theory
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