Comparar métodos

	Revisión exploratoria	Revisión de Mapeo
Campo	Cienciometría	Cienciometría
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	2005	Late 1990s–2000s; major methodological formalization ~2010s
Autor original	Hilary Arksey & Lisa O'Malley	Buckland & Gann (1998); formalized by systematic review community (Campbell Collaboration, Collaboration for Environmental Evidence)
Tipo	Evidence synthesis review design	Systematic evidence mapping methodology
Fuente seminal	Arksey, H., & O'Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(1), 19–32.	James, K. L., Randall, N. P., & Haddaway, N. R. (2016). A methodology for systematic mapping in environmental sciences. Environmental Evidence, 5(1), 7.
Alias	scoping study, literature scoping, evidence mapping review, rapid evidence map	evidence map, systematic map, research map, literature map
Relacionados	6	6
Resumen	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.	A mapping review (also called a systematic map or evidence map) is a form of systematic review that aims to chart the extent, range, and nature of evidence on a broad topic rather than synthesize findings into a single pooled answer. It categorizes studies by key dimensions — such as intervention type, population, outcome, and study design — and presents the resulting landscape visually and tabularly so that researchers and practitioners can identify clusters of evidence, knowledge gaps, and priorities for future primary research or deeper synthesis.