Overview: Scoping Reviews
A scoping review:
- "maps the body of literature on a topic area"
- "include a large range of study designs and methodologies"
- "provide a descriptive overview of the reviewed material without critcally appraising individual studies or synthesizing evidence from different studies."
Arksey, H., & O'Malley, L. (2005). Scoping Studies: Towards a Methodological Framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(1), 19-32. doi:10.1080/1364557032000119616
Pham, M. T., Rajic, A., Greig, J. D., Sargeant, J. M., Papadopoulos, A., & McEwen, S. A. (2014). A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency. Res Synth Methods, 5(4), 371-385. doi:10.1002/jrsm.1123
Additional Resources:
- Cochrane Training: Scoping Reviews: What they are and how you can do them.
- Equator Network: Current Best Practices For The Conduct Of Scoping Reviews
- JBI Scoping Review Network
- Cacchione, P. Z. (2016). The Evolving Methodology of Scoping Reviews. Clinical Nursing Research, 25(2), 115-119. doi:10.1177/1054773816637493
- Levac, D., Colquhoun, H., & O'Brien, K. K. (2010). Scoping studies: advancing the methodology. Implement Sci, 5, 69. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-5-69
- Munn, Z., Peters, M. D. J., Stern, C., Tufanaru, C., McArthur, A., & Aromataris, E. (2018). Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18(1), 143. doi:10.1186/s12874-018-0611-x
- Peters, M. D., Godfrey, C. M., Khalil, H., McInerney, P., Parker, D., & Soares, C. B. (2015). Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews. Int J Evid Based Healthc, 13(3), 141-146. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26134548. doi:10.1097/XEB.0000000000000050
- Peters MDJ, Godfrey C, McInerney P, Munn Z, Tricco AC, Khalil, H. Chapter 11: Scoping Reviews (2020 version). In: Aromataris E, Munn Z (Editors). JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis, JBI, 2020. Available from https://synthesismanual.jbi.global. https://doi.org/10.46658/JBIMES-20-12
- Tricco, A. C., Lillie, E., Zarin, W., O'Brien, K. K., Colquhoun, H., Levac, D., . . . Straus, S. E. (2018). PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and ExplanationThe PRISMA-ScR Statement. Annals of Internal Medicine, 169(7), 467-473. doi:10.7326/m18-0850
