Figure 1
The flowchart consists of several rectangular boxes connected by downward and rightward arrows. At the top left, a rectangular box is labeled “Publications retrieved from Scopus equals 712”. A vertical downward arrow leads to the second box labeled “Publications removed in title screening equals 95”. A vertical downward arrow leads to the third box labeled “Publications left for abstract screening equals 617”. From this box, a horizontal rightward arrow leads to a box labeled “Publications removed in abstract screening equals 273”, which then has a horizontal rightward arrow leading to a box labeled “Publications left for full-text screening equals 344”. From the “Publications left for full-text screening equals 344” box, a vertical downward arrow leads to a box labeled “Publications removed in full-text screening equals 70”. Finally, a horizontal leftward arrow leads to the bottom left box labeled “Publications accepted for the review equals 274”.Procedure followed to reach the final corpus of publications to be reviewed (Source: Authors’ own creation/work)