Figure 2.
A flow diagram summarises literature selection from identification to inclusion, showing article counts at each stage and reasons for exclusion.The flow diagram presents the study selection process with four stages labelled identification screening eligibility and included, starting with articles identified from Scopus numbering 14 181, followed by articles screened numbering 5 169, then articles accessed for eligibility numbering 280, and ending with articles included numbering 61, while parallel boxes list reasons for exclusion at each stage including publication before 2018 non article or non journal type subject area mismatch non English language irrelevant titles abstracts not mentioning barriers inaccessible articles lack of listed barriers and lack of barrier categorisation using multi criteria decision making, with corresponding exclusion counts shown at each step.

Systematic literature review process

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