Literature review articles as a research form.
The purpose of this article has been to outline the JOURNAL format, to present some methodologic suggestions for this new section, and, hopefully, to excite and challenge authors to this form of research. Fundamental to a quality overview are A PRIORI EXPLICIT CRITERIA for each component of the review process. Details of what this means have been presented. The length of the review will depend on the objectives; however, approximately 20 double-spaced manuscript pages (about eight published pages) should be considered close to maximal for a readable review. References may be too extensive for full publication; one way to manage this is to choose about 50 or less key references for publication and suggest to the readers that a full bibliography is available, upon request, from the corresponding author. We hope this new section will be exciting and will be of benefit.
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Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
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