Recommendations for the Extraction, Analysis, and Presentation of Results in Scoping Reviews
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Scoping reviewers often face challenges in the extraction, analysis, and presentation of scoping review results. Using best-practice examples and drawing on the expertise of the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group and an editor of a journal that publishes scoping reviews, this paper expands on existing JBI scoping review guidance. The aim of this article is to clarify the process of extracting data from different sources of evidence; discuss what data should be extracted (and what should not); outline how to analyze extracted data, including an explanation of basic qualitative content analysis; and offer suggestions for the presentation of results in scoping reviews.
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- Authors
- 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.
- Affiliations
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- La Trobe University (AU)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Robert Gordon University (GB)
- St. Michael's Hospital (CA)
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals and Administration, Nursing School, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Queen's University (CA)
- Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane (DE)
- Campbell Collaboration (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Pollock, Danielle
- ORCID
- Venue
- JBI Evidence Synthesis
- Published
- 2022-10-14
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 520-532
- ISSN
- 2689-8381 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4295082022
- Semantic Scholar
- faf9766bc8390c17bc325b7ca352b28530893c47
- Cited by
- 1,975
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 710 · 2025: 751 · 2024: 410 · 2023: 102 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 191.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- JBI Evidence Synthesis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
- Open Access Institutional Repository at Robert Gordon University (Robert Gordon University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Delphi Technique in Research
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Keywords
- scoping review, data extraction, qualitative content analysis, evidence synthesis, reporting guidelines
- MeSH terms
- Scoping Reviews As Topic
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