And then, from time to time, they'll take some of the food â whether it's bagged salad greens, breakfast cereal, or fruit juice â off the shelf and place it in front of a highly trained panel of experts who check the taste and smell and texture.
Primary research is defined as factual, firsthand accounts of the study written by a person who was part of the study. The methods vary on how researchers run an experiment or study, but it typically follows the scientific method. One way you can think of primary research is that it is typically original research.
Whatâs a âresearch article,â anyway? When scientists and other scholars want to make the results of their work public, they usually begin by publishing them in a scholarly journal with a title like New England Journal of Medicine, or Journal of Cell Biology. Research articles will usually contain: 1  a summary or âabstractâ. 2  a description of the research. 3  the results they got.  the significance of the results.