The phrase "articles consisted of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the components or elements that make up a collection of articles or a specific article.
Example: "The research findings indicated that the articles consisted of various studies on climate change and its impact on biodiversity."
Alternatives: "articles were made up of" or "articles included".
The selected articles consisted of five randomised controlled trials, three prospective studies, four systematic reviews, three meta-analyses and six retrospective studies (Fig. 1).
The final set of included qualitative research articles consisted of 1,255 papers.
The top 50 articles consisted of 21 clinical trials and 29 observational studies.
Ten articles consisted of qualitative studies; three of quantitative descriptive studies, and one article used a mixed method approach.
Of the 207 full text articles reviewed, 23 of the identified articles consisted of epidemiological information (overview of the 23 articles available on request).
The final set of 28 included articles consisted of 27 laboratory studies and 1 field study (see Online Resource 2 for the references of all included studies).
Only 1 retrospective cohort study was included, with the remaining articles consisting of case reports and case series.
To a large degree, the articles consist of aggregation: a Bustle writer finds a piece of news that interests her — from the Times, or from a blog she likes — and summarizes it for Bustle's readers, perhaps making its contents into a list, or collecting some related tweets.
To each group, test articles consisting of PBS, rAAV2/EV (vector with no transgene) or rAAV2/mCysC (vector encoding mouse cysC) were administered by intra-articular route and all opposing sham knee joints received PBS (700 μl/joint for all treatments).
That article consisted of a link to 17 August 2015 BBC video about the bombing of the Erawan Shrine, according to a copy of the article preserved by the Internet Archive.
The original dataset used in this article consisted of 12,281 patient surveys, constituting 7,5% of all Dutch nursing home residents at the time.
