When we start a new research study, senior researchers frequently suggest to read and use the previous recent years of respective study as references.
My question is how many years back of related studies can be treated as recent studies? I personally asked many scholars and their opinion were 5 to 7 or 10 years back.
Suggestions expected.
Kindest Regards
Md. Saidur - There is no fixed criteria (of age in years) for citing a research article, book, chapter, conference proceedings etc. The most important point is availability of relevant literature which must be cited. As a rule of thumb, try to find the most recent literature available in a chronological order on a particular topic and then one can also cite the past relevant literature if the recent literature is not available due to some reasons. However, the present trend of researches at present is to support the research data with citations less than ten years old.
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