I am currently working on a review article. however, I am not able to get more research papers for it. Still my article is quite having content as the data is very rare. Is there any minimum requirements for the references to be cited?
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The number of references and citations to publications in the review article is determined by many factors, which usually include: analytical and research specificity of specific issues of a scientific discipline, type of cited and source publications, guidelines of the editors of a scientific journal, more or less extensive literature on specific issues described in the article e.t.c.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
As few as possible is more elegant. Einstein often had none at all :)
Thanks for asking a very nice question Keerthana Kalyanaraman .
If you go for systematic review, it will take more papers to review.
If you need to publish a commentary/short communication/correspondence/review in any journal, less papers are needed to review.
Depends on a number of factors and what is being looked at. However, considering 50, 100, 150 articles in context would be okay
It depends on the purpose and the type of review that you are conducting (mini-review, traditional, systematic). The more you compare and go deeper with more than one goal, the more references you will need.
I agree with of most of above comments, but I can suggest to focus on most relevant to your article and and recent.
Dear Keerthana Kalyanaraman, there is no general rule on how many references should be cited in a review article. This is mainly because there are very different types of review articles (e.g. Mini, Critical, Tutorial, Annual, or Comprehensive Reviews). It also very much depends on the period of time that you intend to cover. For certain Mini or Tutorial Reviews the number of references can even be limited (e.g. 30 or 50). In the case of Annual Reviews you just have to cover all references that have appeared during the respective year. Comprehensive Review can have e.g. ca. 50 to over 1000 references, gain depending on the time period that is covered by the review. If you have just 10 references, you can hardly speak of a review article.
Keerthana Kalyanaraman
it depends on the topic and range between 60-100 references.
In literature, I usually refer to publications in the amount of 50 - 70. However, it depends on the requirements of the article, tamatu. If the published topic is unique, unheard of, of course, the number of items in the literature is smaller.
There are no rules/limits to the number of citations. However, some journals set theirs, so be sure to look out for that in the journal you choose to publish in.
Best to focus on recent references too
Dear Keerthana Kalyanaraman, it always helps to check out earlier review article from your field of research and compare how many references they cite. It is very important anyway to know all relevant Review Articles in your field so that you can avoid any duplication.
thank you so much Frank T. Edelmann , Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman , Dariusz Prokopowicz Suely MM Dias Bablu Kumar Dhar Amina M. Ahmed El-Imam Nirmala S.V.S.G Waldemar Łasica Husham Elbaloula Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak Isaac Sarfo . The answers really help a lot.
I think, it depends on the research conducted so far in the extant literature on the concerned topic and we should mention maximum references as per our possibilities.
To me it does not make much sense to quote maximum or minimum numbers. As I mentioned earlier, the number of references very much depends on the type of Review Article and the time period covered in this Review. Relatively few references are often OK for Mini Reviews, Research Reports, and Tutorial reviews. The other extreme are Comprehensive Reviews covering decades of research.
It usually depends on the journal and the length of the review; however, I believe a number between fifty and one hundred.
I have already written some 50+ Review Articles, and, after all, it is impossible to quote or predict the number of references. The following Review Article had only 23 references:
Article Versatile Scorpionates—New Developments in the Coordination ...
In contrast, the following Review Article had 371 references:
Article Chapter 3 Advances in the Coordination Chemistry of Amidinat...
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