Different: research papers are generally long and detailed in order to deduce their own findings and prove their correctness, while briefing papers are short and highly concise, summarizing past scientific research achievements and envisaging future scientific research directions. Briefing has novel features and high influence.

Tong: It's objective, too. We don't express our opinions, but make objective statements. The content includes six parts: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and analysis, discussion and references.