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Q&A How do I claim the number of scholarly articles on a niche subject is relatively small without listing every single one of those citations?

Consider something like the following: ... has only been thoroughly evaluated by a small number of experts in the xx literature, the most significant of which are (author1992, author1994, ...)....

posted 10y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:24:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/10422
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T03:24:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
Consider something like the following:

> ... has only been thoroughly evaluated by a small number of experts in the xx literature, the most significant of which are (author1992, author1994, ...).

By casting it this way you're not implying that you're listing all of them _but_ you're also not just picking some at random. You are saying to your reader: "these are the best of what's out there", with an implied "and that's not enough, which is why I'm writing this article".

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2014-02-28T19:17:20Z (over 10 years ago)
Original score: 3