Updating a review paper after several years by publishing a new review paper Six years ago, I published a review (survey) paper about a topic in my field.

Since then the literature (and the topic) has evolved substantially, so I think it’d be worthwhile to update the review by writing an “update paper”. I can think of at least hundred papers published in the meantime that could be worth adding, and a few interesting points (new perspectives, etc.). However, I have never seen a paper revisiting a previously published review paper and updating it. My questions are:


Does such situation warrant a new publication?
Is it common to publish a review paper updating a previous review? Any examples?
How to title it?
Updated review papers are not particularly unusual, as a Google Scholar search readily demonstrates.  You should definitely explicitly declare the paper as an updated review, and it is probably best to send the paper to the same journal as before.  If you can get in touch with the journal editors, they may even be able to expedite the review process, since they already know and have accepted the first version.