Figure 1.
The flowchart presents the process of selecting articles for a systematic review. It begins with an initial search that identifies articles from Google Scholar, Science Direct, and ProQuest, totaling fifteen thousand three hundred seventy-six articles. It then proceeds to a screening phase where titles are checked and duplicates removed, resulting in one thousand five hundred articles. The eligibility stage narrows this down to two hundred five articles after checking the abstract, leading to a further selection where full texts of one hundred ten articles are checked. Finally, eighty-five articles are selected for the systematic review. Each stage is clearly delineated with arrows indicating the flow of the selection process and details on the number of articles at each stage.PRISMA flowchart of the article selection process (K = number of articles)
Source: Authors’ own work