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Scoping review design and methods

Details of the corpus

Our final 2025 corpus comprises 163 articles and book chapters.

For each article or book chapter we also recorded, where available:

  • Author-generated keywords (where keywords were not given, we manually developed a set of keywords to assist with future searchability)
  • Year of publication
  • Full APA-formatted reference
  • The abstract or opening paragraph.
  • Whether the work describes an empirical study (85 works, or 52%) or not (78 works, 48%)
  • The global location(s) of users investigated in an empirical study
  • Method, and nature of study sample

 

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