Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Συστηματική Βιβλιογραφική Ανασκόπηση	Επισκόπηση πεδίου
Πεδίο	Επιστημομετρία	Επιστημομετρία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1993 (Cochrane Collaboration); 2004 (Kitchenham SLR guidelines)	2005
Δημιουργός	Archie Cochrane (conceptual foundation); formalized by the Cochrane Collaboration (1993) and Barbara Kitchenham in software engineering (2004)	Hilary Arksey & Lisa O'Malley
Τύπος	Evidence synthesis methodology	Evidence synthesis review design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Kitchenham, B. (2004). Procedures for Performing Systematic Reviews. Keele University Technical Report TR/SE-0401.	Arksey, H., & O'Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(1), 19–32.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	SLR, systematic review, evidence synthesis review, structured literature review	scoping study, literature scoping, evidence mapping review, rapid evidence map
Συναφείς	5	6
Σύνοψη	A systematic literature review (SLR) is a structured, reproducible method for identifying, appraising, and synthesizing all relevant studies on a research question. Unlike a narrative review, it follows an explicit, pre-specified protocol — from database search strings through inclusion criteria to data extraction — so that the process is transparent, auditable, and replicable by other researchers. It is widely used in medicine, education, software engineering, and the social sciences to produce the most comprehensive possible evidence base on a topic.	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.