Scientific and technological literature generally refers to scientific and technological papers, which are also called original papers or first-class documents in information science. It is a scientific analysis, comprehensive research and exposition of phenomena (or problems) in the fields of natural science, engineering science and humanities and arts research by scientific and technical personnel or other researchers on the basis of scientific experiments (or experiments).

Further study some phenomena and problems, summarize and innovate other achievements and conclusions, and express them in electronic and written form according to the requirements of various scientific journals. According to different research methods, scientific papers can be divided into three categories: theoretical, experimental and descriptive:

The research methods used in theoretical papers are theoretical proof, theoretical analysis and mathematical reasoning, and scientific research results are obtained through these research methods; The experimental paper uses experimental methods to carry out experimental research and obtain scientific research results; Descriptive papers use the methods of description, comparison and explanation to study newly discovered things or phenomena and obtain scientific research results.

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Characteristics of scientific papers:

Academic nature: Academic nature is the main feature of scientific papers. It takes academic achievements as the expression object, academic viewpoints as the core of the paper, expounds academic achievements and academic viewpoints on the premise of scientific experiments (or experiments), reveals the objective laws of things' development and changes, explores the objective truth in the field of science and technology, and promotes the development of science and technology. Academic strength is the standard to measure the value of scientific papers.

Second, innovation: scientific papers must be studied by the author himself, and the new progress or breakthrough of scientific theories, methods or practices should reflect new ideas, methods and achievements different from those of predecessors, so as to improve the citation rate of academic colleagues at home and abroad.

Third, it is scientific: the content of the paper must be objective and true, qualitative and quantitative accurate, and it is not allowed to be false at all, and it must stand the test of others' repetition and practice; The expression of the paper should also be scientific, the discussion should be clear, not ambiguous, and the language should be accurate and standardized.

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