Original papers will add more to your profile than review articles... writing review articles is time consuming as well.. i would suggest concentrate more on research and write a review paper once in a while... good original papers of a well designed study and of good clinical implications will get you citations as well. I would suggest you to choose a core area for research

Thanks Rimple, I agree with you. I just noticed that there is a trend among new researchers to write review articles just because they usually get a lot of citations!

I mean, that's good but it will not help you to improve your skills..

original items would be better. Review articles take time, and they repeat/summarize what was done previously. In my opinion, you'd be better off investing your time toward an original item that contributes new knowledge to the field.

I agree with the part of adding a new contribution to the current knowledge. However, for the time issue, don’t you think original articles can take a lot of time may be even more than review articles?

Start with research paper, then move to review article, because writing a review article takes a lot of time and effort as compared to writing a research article cause it involves lots of critical appraisal of medical literature as compared to research article.

Thanks, Manik for sharing your thought. So do you mean to write original articles first and then include them into the review article?

Thanks, Ankit for your comment. I think it will take about the same time for both since you will need a lot of time in collecting and analyzing data for original articles, right?