How to Write a Scientific Journal Review (with sample)

Reading and writing scientific journal review is pretty much indispensible in school especially in engineering not just because it’s a requirement but also because we have to know what’s happening in the field of research and discover some topics from which we can do a thesis. Scientific journals also give us an idea of the applications of what have we been studying in school. There are a lot of sources of scientific journals both in the library and in the internet. In my school, the magazines for scientific journals from my observation are hardly updated with new ones so I read journals online instead. But of course you have look into legit sources. I recommend that you make good use of your school’s online subscriptions to journal publications. As for me, I use sciencedirect.com and springerlink.com.

Basically here is the most common format you can use in writing a scientific journal review from online publications (*note: humanities journal review have different format).

Title

Author/s

Introduction

-Gives a brief summary of all the contents of the journal article. It gives the current understanding of the problem and how the problem was solved using specific methods, experimental design, instrumentation and procedures. It also gives the brief of results and interpretation of the results.

Summary of Results

-Tables and figures are included here as well as the explanations. These are purely from the results of the journal being reviewed.

Critique of Results

-This is the part where you can now express if you are satisfied with the results of the journal article and explain why or why not. You can refer to specific tables or figures for the results. You can also criticize the methods used in solving the problem and their accuracies.

Recommendation

-You can suggest ways in order to improve the work and make the results more accurate and more precise. Other than that, you can also recommend other problems related with the article that can be addressed with research or which can be the interest of a thesis.

References

-This is optional. If you have used information from other sources in your critique and recommendation then you have to site your references.

You can access a sample of scientific journal review here.

And I will also be posting my own journal review soon. :)