One of the Japanese inventors said the following phrase: "If your scientific research did not end with a commercial product, consider that you spent your time in vain". I agree with this phrase. Now why? Because one must be well aware that research very often does not take into account many real factors and in most cases pursues a goal in order to demonstrate its qualifications. I would say this: The difference between research and a commercial product is the same as the difference between a bicycle and a spacecraft. That is why hundreds of thousands of scientific articles are published, of which only a few are represented by completed commercial products. From this point of view, I do not see any difference between the research and the scientific article, since these "high words" only shake the air at best.
Thanks a lot for your contributions with insightful answers.
1. I think in a scientific paper a hypothesis(s) and an alternative hypothesis (s) are must , whenever a research paper mainly a questions based search and a systematic analysis.
2. A scientific paper generally have mathematical /statistical analysis and in a research paper may have descriptive analysis.
3.Generally Scientific papers are on the based on quantitative research whereas a research paper may be qualitative and quantitative or both.
Academic legitimation plays a great role in the assessment of a paper; very many scientific papers are methodically academic qualification works, i.e. their primary goal is about jobs in academia and archiving knowledge, according to a certain standard paradigm. If a paper or contribution is really about research, then the aspect of legitimation can not be applied and the novelty of those findings will undergo usually a time-test in discourse communities. A good academic socialization and training should enable you to write a sound scientific standard paper in your field of study, but research is what follows inside or outside academia. In our times, I do think, it is imperative to use scientific methods, be that experimental labs, computation, empirics or hermeneutics; so, we factually learn at first some algorithms of a field, and we can then move on to explore heuristic guesses and the still unknown or undone.
The posts of all the previous respondents are insightful. To me, from one point of view, a scientific paper is the outcome of research but not necessarily vice versa.
Sure, these are the characteristics of the related papers but not obligatory as we know. Research is called formal in publications including formal and informal process to search the truth where a scientific paper is more formal in the publications with some structural changes rather than research paper.
A research paper is a primary source...that is, it reports the methods and results of an original study performed by the authors. The kind of study may vary (it could have been an experiment, survey, interview, etc.), but in all cases, raw data have been collected and analyzed by the authors, and conclusions drawn from the results of that analysis.
Research papers follow a particular format. Look for:
A brief introduction will often include a review of the existing literature on the topic studied, and explain the rationale of the author's study. This is important because it demonstrates that the authors are aware of existing studies, and are planning to contribute to this existing body of research in a meaningful way (that is, they're not just doing what others have already done).
A methods section, where authors describe how they collected and analyzed data. Statistical analyses are included. This section is quite detailed, as it's important that other researchers be able to verify and/or replicate these methods.
A results section describes the outcomes of the data analysis. Charts and graphs illustrating the results are typically included.
In the discussion, authors will explain their interpretation of their results and theorize on their importance to existing and future research.
References or works cited are always included. These are the articles and books that the authors drew upon to plan their study and to support their discussion.
A research paper is usually one of the academic requirements for graduate students at the tertiary level whereby the students are asked to prepare a well documented academic report by investigating topics offered by the class teacher and by presenting specific findings related to the targeted topics in predetermined intervals. By contrast, a scientific paper is a research report expounding some type of original research results following well established, time honored standards and scientific ethics determined by the speech community to which the particular researcher belongs.
A research paper needs meeting certain strict criteria of correctness, describing original scientific research and resulting conclusions. Research publications are usually a scientific primary source.
A scientific paper may simply consider elements of a problem but a research paper should consider the whole picture, arguments for and against, produce rational, logical arguments based on verifiable evidence.
Any research work leads to scientific paper. Research work is the basis of publication of Scientific paper. Without research work no scientific paper is possible.