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Literature Review: Scoping Review Process

The Literature Review and Scoping Review information guides list a starting resources on designing and conducting a literature review. This information guide also provides information on collaboration and authorship of reviews with librarians. 

Selected Books 

Review Team

  • Co-Authors Team: professional networking with colleagues and experts in the studied topic or specialty, knowledge of scoping review methodology, and basic understanding of literature search concepts and methodology
  • Study conceptualization: meetings with colleagues to discuss the study design and methodology
  • Designing Review: goal, guidelines, methods, reporting criteria, and PCC mnemonics (population, concept, context)
  • Designing Protocol: Protocol Registration
  • Planning Data Review: Data Communication Principles and Strategies

Scoping Review Planning

  • Co-Authors Team: professional networking with colleagues and experts in the studied topic or specialty; knowledge of scoping review methodology; and a basic understanding of literature search concepts and methodology.
  • Information scientist and librarian to be included as coauthors and team collaborators
  • Study conceptualization: meetings with colleagues to discuss the study design and methodology
  • Designing Review: goal, guidelines, methods, reporting criteria, and PCC mnemonics (population, concept, context)
  • Designing Protocols: Protocol Registration
  • Planning Data Review
  • Data Communication Principles and Strategies

Scoping Review Methodology

Protocol

Peters MDJ, Godfrey C, McInerney P, Munn Z, Tricco AC, Khalil, H. Chapter 11: Scoping Reviews (2020 version). 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

Method
  • PRISMA for Scoping Review - contains reporting requirements for scoping reviews to evaluate the scope of published research per topics. 

Tricco, AC, Lillie, E, Zarin, W, O'Brien, KK, Colquhoun, H, Levac, D, Moher, D, Peters, MD, Horsley, T, Weeks, L, Hempel, S et al. PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): checklist and explanation. Ann Intern Med. 2018,169(7):467-473. doi:10.7326/M18-0850.

  • PCC framework - (population, concept, context) is used for scoping reviews to design a literature search. This framework also is used to determine the inclusion and exclusion criteria  

Pollock, D., Peters, M. D. J., Khalil, H., McInerney, P., Alexander, L., Tricco, A. C., Evans, C., de Moraes, É. B., Godfrey, C. M., Pieper, D., Saran, A., Stern, C., & Munn, Z. (2023). Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews. JBI evidence synthesis, 21(3), 520–532. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-22-00123

  • JBI Scoping Review Framework - an approach used to identify research question, studies, select studies, chart studies data, collate, summarize, report study findings, and consulting. 
Synthesis 
  • JBI Analysis and Presentation of results
  • Journal of Evidence Synthesis - journal containing scoping review synthesis articles
  • EndNote - citation management tool to manage citations, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate literature 
    Note: DML library offer licensed access to EndNote
  • Covidence, Distiller and others are applications used to screen and synthetize literature (often used for a systematic and meta-analysis review)
    Note: DML library does not offer an access to these tools. 
  • SRDR+ -  free, online, collaborative system for extracting and archiving study data during systematic reviews. The SRDR+ also can be used for scoping reviews. 
Reporting 

 

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