What are scoping studies? A review of the nursing literature.

By K. Davis, Nicholas Drey, D. Gould. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2009

841 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Research and Theory

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In General Health Professions

1. Andrea C. Tricco
2. M. Peters
3. C. Godfrey
4. Z. Munn
5. K. O’Brien
6. Heather Colquhoun
7. D. Levac
8. Tore Dybå

Citations in the corpus

• Embodied Conversational Agents in Clinical Psychology: A Scoping Review (2017, neutral): “As theoretical underpinnings to scoping reviews, as well as transparency about the process by which results are obtained, are often lacking [16], we also made an attempt to provide clear concept definitions.”
• Enhancing the scoping study methodology: a large, inter-professional team’s experience with Arksey and O’Malley’s framework (2013, background): “and others [2,3,5] are concerned about Arksey and O’Malley’s framework’s inability to provide for an assessment of the quality of the literature.”
• Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting (2021, background): “It is certainly the case that the main methodological advances in scoping reviews has been generated from within the health research community (Tricco et al., 2018; Levac et al., 2010; Davis et al., 2009).”
• The use of flipped classrooms in higher education: A scoping review (2015, background): “Davis et al. (2009) argue that a scoping review is a robust method of identifying primary and secondary sources of literature with its success based on both developmental and intellectual approaches.”
• Undertaking a scoping review: A practical guide for nursing and midwifery students, clinicians, researchers, and academics (2021, background): “As the popularity of scoping reviews has increased, so too have the criticisms of this methodological approach for synthesizing evidence (Davis et al., 2009; Tricco et al., 2016).”
• From Arksey and O’Malley and Beyond: Customizations to enhance a team-based, mixed approach to scoping review methodology (2021, background): “Findings synthesized from the scoping reviews on scoping reviews revealed critiques including wide variation in methodological rigor [1,14 , 15] ; inconsistencies in how findings are reported [7 , 14 , 15] ; lack”
• Best practice guidance and reporting items for the development of scoping review protocols (2022, positive): “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): “In general, scoping reviews are commonly used for ‘reconnaissance’ – to clarify working definitions and conceptual boundaries of a topic or field.(5) Scoping reviews are therefore of particular use when a body of literature has not yet been comprehensively reviewed, or exhibits a large, complex, or ”
• Roles and characteristics of problem solving in the mathematics curriculum: a review (2020, background): “This review differs from a traditional review in its potential to identify the essential insights drawn from a diverse body of evidence (Davis et al., 2009).”
• Application of systematic review methodology to food and feed safety assessments to support decision making. (2010, neutral): “There is no universally agreed definition of scoping (Davis et al., 2009).”
• Scoping studies: advancing the methodology (2010, background): “It is generally synonymous with a preliminarily investigation in which information is systematically gathered and examined in order to establish strengths and weakness and guide in which ever context, future decision-making’ [[1] p.”
• Research synthesis in software engineering: A tertiary study (2011, background): “Another form of secondary study is the scoping study, which (unlike SRs) is less likely to attempt to address very specific research questions or to assess the quality of the included studies [2,12].”
• A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency (2014, background): “…it is crucial for scoping review authors to clearly report the processes and procedures undertaken—as well as any limitations of the approach—to ensure that readers have sufficient information to determine the value of findings and recommendations (Arksey and O’Malley, 2005; Davis et al., 2009).”