Section in review paper with same citations leads to plagiarism

Question

I cited a review article which divided a specific architecture into two categories. For each category the authors of the review paper cite a number of different related paper and explain them.

My problem is that my own section contains for each category some of the paper they cited in their review article. Is this considered as structural plagiarism?

To summarize:

1.) I cited the structural classification of the review article.

2.) For each category I only cited the original work and not that I acquired this subset of related work in the section of the review article.

Should I do that in addition?

Answer 1

It's possibly implied a bit that the other papers came from the review, depending on how exactly you phrased things. You might be able to add a few extra words to make this more clear, though, which might look something like:

Simon, et al.[1], characterized woodland creatures as either Elves[2,3,4] or Fairies[5,6,7].

Then, in your subsequent Elves section, you can freely refer to references [2,3,4] individually for their specific content, and do the same for the Fairies section, without needing to refer back to [1] in either, assuming you aren't taking any more ideas from [1] besides the categorization.

I would consider, though, whether you need to present a review of all that work the same way that the previous review did; it's possible it's critical enough to your current work that it is necessary, but I'd make sure you're actually presenting what is most relevant to the rest of the paper and not just recapitulating the review.