A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency

By M. Pham, A. Rajič, J. Greig, J. Sargeant, A. Papadopoulos, S. McEwen. Research Synthesis Methods, 2014

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The scoping review has become an increasingly popular approach for synthesizing research evidence. It is a relatively new approach for which a universal study definition or definitive procedure has not been established. The purpose of this scoping review was to provide an overview of scoping reviews in the literature.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management (2020, background): “The goal of a scoping review is to characterize the existing literature in a particular field of study, particularly when a topic has yet to be extensively reviewed and the related concepts are complex and heterogeneous (Pham et al., 2014).”
Researchers under the spell of the arts: Two decades of using arts-based methods in community-based inquiry with vulnerable populations ☆ (2017, methodology): “A scoping review was conducted to synthesize available research evidence (Pham et al., 2014).”
Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting (2021, background): “This in turn can lead to questions about the rigour and transferability of scoping review findings (Pham et al., 2014), in addition to fatigue with the now ubiquitous finding that ‘more research is needed’ – a common conclusion drawn from scoping reviews (Tricco et al., 2016).”
Best practice guidance and reporting items for the development of scoping review protocols (2022, neutral): “9,10 While Pham and colleagues 11 followed an unpublished a priori protocol in their 2014 scoping review of scoping reviews and highlighted this as a strength, their review did not examine whether included scoping reviews used protocols themselves.”
Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews (2015, background): “For example, a recent scoping review of scoping reviews aimed to provide an overview of how scoping reviews have been conducted.(13) To support the greater breadth of scoping reviews, a variety of study designs are usually included.”
A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews (2016, methodology): “We are aware of a previous scoping review of scoping reviews [16].”
Student perceptions of assessment feedback: a critical scoping review and call for research (2020, methodology): “However, there appears to be much variation in the extent and nature of published scoping reviews (Arksey & O’Malley, 2005; Pham et al., 2014).”
The Psychology of Mukbang Watching: A Scoping Review of the Academic and Non-academic Literature (2020, background): “A scoping review comprises an attempt to survey the literature on a specific topic in order to identify key concepts, available evidence, and gaps in the research with regard to the chosen topic irrespective of the source material or quality of the source (Pham et al. 2014).”
Undertaking a scoping review: A practical guide for nursing and midwifery students, clinicians, researchers, and academics (2021, methodology): “The first framework for conducting a scoping review was proposed by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and remains popular across disciplines (Pham et al., 2014).”