Other types of articles[edit]

 Academic paper – an article published in an academic journal. The status of academics is

often dependent both on how many articles they have had published and on the number of
times that their articles are cited by authors of other articles.
 Essay some overlap with academic paper.
 Scientific paper – an article published in a scientific journal.
 Blog – some blog articles are like magazine or newspaper articles; others are written more
like entries in a personal journal.
 Encyclopedia article – in an encyclopedia or other reference work, an article is a primary
division of content.
 Marketing article – an often thin piece of content which is designed to draw the reader to a
commercial website or product.
 Usenet article – a message written in the style of e-mail and posted to an open moderated
or unmoderated Usenet newsgroup.
 Spoken article – an article produced in the form of an audio recording, also referred to as
a podcast.
 Listicle – an article whose primary content is a list.
 Portrait – a portrait of a person (article).