How to quickly read a scientific paper | by Christophe Pere | Medium
Reading an article is not done in this order. An article is complex, uses a very technical vocabulary and develops a sophisticated methodology (Northcentral University, 2019). To better understand the difficulty and technical content of an article, a quick and effective method is the Skim and Take notes method (Purugganan & Hewitt, 2004).
a. What was done and what was found?
b. Does the author provide specific results? Are they relevant?
a. Summarizes the important results
b. Give reasons for the conclusion
c. Questions: Do you agree? Are the results useful?
a. Explanation on the motivations and importance of research
b. Provided a state of the art work on the domain
c. Questions: Do you understand the state of the art? Do you need to explore the references to get more information?
a. Provide the data used to carry out the study and can help you in your own research
b. Contains figures and tables for a simple and effective vision of the results
c. Questions: Figures — Do you understand the axes use? Their units? Do the curves make sense?
a. By far the most complex part because it contains the details, theory and explanations of the experiment or algorithm developed
b. Question: Can you replicate the experiment or the algorithm?