research article

Scholarly journal piece

A research article is a formal written work presenting original findings, analysis, or experimentation, typically published in an academic journal after peer review.

It follows a standard structure—introduction, methods, results, discussion—and contributes new knowledge to a field.

Distinguished from review articles, which synthesize existing research rather than report new data.

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