Minimum number of cases for a correlation?

I am reviewing a piece of research in which a correlation of .6 has
been found between two variables. The scatterplot is okay. However, the
N is 12. I remember reading somewhere that an N of 50 was the minimum
required for a correlation.

Is an N of 12 just too small for a correlation?

Thanks

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