Publication Characteristics

Review

An article or book published after examination of published material on a subject. It may be comprehensive to various degrees and the time range of material scrutinized may be broad or narrow, but the reviews most often desired are reviews of the current literature. The textual material examined may be equally broad and can encompass, in medicine specifically, clinical material as well as experimental research or case reports. State-of-the-art reviews tend to address more current matters. A review of the literature must be differentiated from HISTORICAL ARTICLE on the same subject, but a review of historical literature is also within the scope of this publication type.

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Abstract

An article or book published after examination of published material on a subject. It may be comprehensive to various degrees and the time range of material scrutinized may be broad or narrow, but the reviews most often desired are reviews of the current literature. The textual material examined may be equally broad and can encompass, in medicine specifically, clinical material as well as experimental research or case reports. State-of-the-art reviews tend to address more current matters. A review of the literature must be differentiated from HISTORICAL ARTICLE on the same subject, but a review of historical literature is also within the scope of this publication type.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Review Literature
  • Review of Reported Cases
  • Review, Academic
  • Review, Multicase

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Indexing Annotation

This heading is used as a Publication Type. Review articles as a bibliographic form are indexed under the main heading REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC

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History Note

2008(1966)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Numbers

  1. V02.600.500w
  2. V02.912w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Review. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016454. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016454
  2. Review. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review
  3. Review. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265158