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What is a scientific paper

I have to do a presentation on a scientific paper.. help
A scientific paper is what we call a publication in a science journal*. It's an explanation of the methods, results and analysis from a particular project undertaken by scientists. Think of it as the same as your lab reports, but more advanced.

*Examples of journals include Science and Nature.
http://www.sciencemag.org/
http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Those are probably the most prestigious general science journals. If your work is published in those then you're doing pretty well. From what I remember both of them have a strict four page limit on articles so the information in them skips most of the background information and is very concise so as a result can be hard to follow.
(edited 9 years ago)
If you want to see some for yourself, google ' arxiv ' and have a look around.

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