Figure 1.
A flowchart shows document screening from Scopus and WOS, reducing 8,567 records through eight criteria to 32 studies on external factors influencing IC.The Scopus pathway starts with Criteria 1, containing 8,473 documents. Criteria 2 reduces this to 5,396 documents. Criteria 3 reduces the total to 2,300 documents. Criteria 4 reduces it to 166 documents. The W O S pathway starts with Criteria 5, containing 94 documents. Criteria 6 reduces this to 53 documents. These 53 documents merge into the Scopus pathway at Criteria 4. Criteria 7 then reduces the combined set to 136 documents. Criteria 8 reduces it to 32 documents. The final box contains documents studying external factors influencing I C, with 32 documents.

Flow diagram followed for the literature review

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