The length of scientific article differ among scientific fields, e.g. papers in sciences are mainly shorter than those in social sciences or in the humanities. Albert Einstein's PhD thesis was at the very beginning evaluated negative by the commission and one of the explanations was that the manuscript is too short. This is very good example that convince us that the quality of the article depends on some internal factors, not on its' length.

The length of scientific article differ among scientific fields, e.g. papers in sciences are mainly shorter than those in social sciences or in the humanities. Albert Einstein's PhD thesis was at the very beginning evaluated negative by the commission and one of the explanations was that the manuscript is too short. This is very good example that convince us that the quality of the article depends on some internal factors, not on its' length.

For an article that is less than 4 pages long and I can not mention all the details of the article for my work during my research ..

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Indeed, it makes you to leave good information behind, one may need atleast 6-7pages to produce a full detailed article.

Yes, it is a length of introduction in e.g. social science, but in physics or chemistry or...it's quite enough to compare two or three formulas and to create the third and its' great impact. I think that Maxwell's PhD thesis was around 30 pages. And he turn around the whole theory of electromagnetism.

For correct understanding of the matter, it is necessary to enter information for the purposes of the study and expected results, as well as research and comment on the results.

Soon I had to redraw 6-page material to 4. I missed some comments and an explanatory figure. Fortunately, the formatting saved me half-page editing.

The question and the following discussion are very interesting. Scientific articles under four pages are fine if their quality is recognizable and other certain prerequisites are fulfilled, for example, the submission requirements of the relevant journal. I will give an example. The attached published scientific article has three pages (Scientia Horticulturae, Elsevier, impact factor: 1.760, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/scientia-horticulturae).

Writing a scientific article requires explaining the results, expressing another person's opinion objectively, or summarizing a topic. The article should be clear, coherent, and studied so the number of pages does not matter as important as the search.

Khaoula Hidouri, i think it depends on the research field, i have many papers 4 or 5 pages and published in a good conference i will send to u. finally the scientific paper depends on quality not number of pages.

best wishes..

Conference Paper The manufacture of dental feldspathic porcelain using quartz...

Please, see this scientific paper.

Conference Paper The manufacture of dental feldspathic porcelain using quartz...

6 pages

Quality not pages

It depends on the content.

It's all about the "quality" of the article. A "half page" article was accepted in high IF journal like Nature.

حسب نوع المقال فمثلا في البحوث الإنسانية ممكن ان يكون ذلك صحيحا .في حين في البحوث العلمية قد تكون غير كافية

Good to make all you idea at 4 pages

We can't compare depends on pages

The length of a published paper does not matter much, however, the quality of the paper is very important.

Dear Khaoula Hidouri

It was also hard for me to write an article up to four pages and to avoid explanations, I cited more authors explaining them.

Categories of manuscripts

An article merit can not be measured by no of pages . It depends upon the acceptability / citation in a standard Journal , Conference Proceedings , or Preprint .

Sometimes, the preparation of a scientific article up to 3-4 pages is a smart action, especially, in cases where time matters.

The quality of the article doesn't depend on the length of the scientific article.

Abstract contains 150- 250 to 300 words; if abstract can cover the whole thesis and convey some message, if not all, then four pages can be considered good amount of reading, though not explicit....

The size is not dependent of quality of any scientific article.

I have a lowest 2 page article (short communication) and a highest 54 page article (a review).

So, I do not think size of any article is important at all.

Size of article is always dependent on the type and nature of research contribution inside the article.

Thanks.

Yes, it's all about quality, not no. of pages.

What matters is the obtained results even if it was a one page article!

i think quality of any research or scientific work has nothing to do with the number of pages, length or shortness, but depends on the results

I do agree with all the above RG colleagues responses.

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I guess there must be no length constraints with the articles.. it may be my personal opinion coz few of mine have gone above 50 in terms of pages

For a conference paper, 4 pages are good enough. over all its quality not the number of pages.

Research is not depend on number of pages. A good research article may be one page or hundred pages.

no. of pages is not an issue--the issue is quality and innovation

They contain information which normally is is scare.

Papers to deliver during the Conference to four pages usually have the character of a summary of the characterized results of the research carried out. However, a fuller version of the characterized results of the scientific research carried out with a description of the research issues, conditions in which they were carried out, their significance, potential applications, etc. is in an article or chapter written for a monograph, a book published after the conference. However, such a formula of the division of a post-conference study into a paper and an article or a chapter in a scientific monograph is not always practiced. Sometimes the organizers accept only one study of the results of the research, which at the same time serves as a paper for the conference and an article or chapter for post-conference monographs. Then the volume of this type of study is usually oriented to the standard requirements specified for scientific articles, i.e. about half of the publishing sheet.

It depends on the subject discussed in the paper

Best Regards Teodora Hristova

The size is not dependent of quality of any scientific article. But, I think , 4 pages are not enough for scientific article.

The length of the manuscript is not as important as the quality. Some journals though are very particular about the word limit per article.Overall a precise, meaningful, and well written article is always appreciated.

It is Ok

The good scientific articles are really not limited by number of pages. It certain disciplines it may be possible to do so but largely pages restrictions are bound to influence quality of presentation.

Depends entirely on its quality.

Number of pages may not limit quality of work.

A good review paper difficult to restrict within four pages. Sometime small note type paper can be done, but that should be a good quality paper. It depends sometime on subject and topic also on which paper is written.

Quality and bulk are not related ......this is for kind information that smallest thesis containing only 27 pages. Good information could be summarize in nut shall and bulky matter create the diversion.

Than you

Quality is the criteria - I think if it comes within even 2 pages-no harm