Tag
Literature Review
Every CitationLab post tagged literature review. This topic runs through several posts across the blog — case files where it caused a real problem, and guides for handling it in your own reference list.
Guides
How old is too old? Reference currency by discipline
There is no universal expiry date on a reference. What ageing actually measures, how currency differs by field, and a five-minute audit of your own reference list.
Guides
Orphan references: entries you never cite
A reference listed but never cited. Where orphans come from, why the heading on your list decides whether they are errors at all, and why a large share of them are not orphans but matching failures.
Guides
The 5-year rule myth
Nobody wrote the five-year rule down, yet every researcher has been told it. Where the number came from, the three real concerns it stands for, and how to answer it.