It is said that there is a clear difference in readership between thesis chapter and research article.And,It is also said that,It is easy to convert a draft chapter into research paper but converting a finished and polished thesis chapter into research paper is comparatively difficult.
Research papers are more accurate and more concise than thesis chapters
A thesis chapter is also what you've done, what you know, and what's your experience, whereas a research paper is a new knowledge and whatever is tightly related to it exclusively.
Research article and thesis chapter may be a study of any phenomenon. But article differs by structure (Abstract, Introduction, Methods...) and it's a self-standing unit in contrast to thesis chapter
The standard method of transmitting original scientific information is to publish it as a formal research paper, adopting the IMRAD format— Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, and Discussion. The IMRAD structure must be followed for the thesis too. However, in a thesis, each part of IMRAD is prepared in separate chapters in a comprehensive manner.
The main body of a thesis is divided into six chapters, namely, Introduction, Review of literature, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, and Summary. In the case of a research paper, a separate section as “Review of literature” is not given but a few pertinent references are reviewed and given as part of “Introduction”. Similarly, the “Results” and the “Discussion” are presented in a detailed manner in separate chapters with appropriate tables, diagrams, and other illustrations unlike a research paper where they are usually combined. Note that research paper must be a published article in a peer-reviewed journal with good rating. Theses are not normally published, and therefore come under grey literature.
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