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	Επισκόπηση πεδίου με Μετα-εθνογραφία	Επισκόπηση πεδίου
Πεδίο	Επιστημομετρία	Επιστημομετρία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1988 (meta-ethnography); field-mapping application 2000s–2010s	2005
Δημιουργός	Noblit & Hare (meta-ethnography base); field-mapping frame developed in review methodology literature	Hilary Arksey & Lisa O'Malley
Τύπος	Qualitative evidence synthesis with field-mapping scope	Evidence synthesis review design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Noblit, G. W., & Hare, R. D. (1988). Meta-ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803930599	Arksey, H., & O'Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(1), 19–32.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	field-mapping qualitative synthesis, scoping meta-ethnography, field-mapping qualitative meta-synthesis, landscape meta-ethnography	scoping study, literature scoping, evidence mapping review, rapid evidence map
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Field-mapping meta-ethnography combines the breadth of a field-mapping (scoping) review with the interpretive synthesis power of meta-ethnography. It first maps the full landscape of qualitative studies on a topic to understand what has been studied and how, then applies Noblit and Hare's seven-step meta-ethnographic synthesis to generate second-order and third-order constructs that represent the accumulated qualitative evidence across that field.	A scoping review is a systematic evidence-synthesis method that maps the breadth and nature of research on a topic — identifying key concepts, evidence types, and gaps — without necessarily appraising study quality or pooling effect sizes. Developed by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and refined by Levac and colleagues (2010), it is particularly valuable for emerging or heterogeneous fields where a full systematic review would be premature or infeasible.