Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
All articles concerning all sorts of ART and Assisted Insemination (AI) which are dealing either: • Fully or partially with demographic research (national or regional activity reports and registries, geographical and socio-economic patterns of usage), ELSI, economic, regulations, anthropological, and political issues. OR • with value-based approaches, attitudes, opinions, expectations, and preferences. OR • with education, knowledge, and empowerment of decision-making among patients and donors. OR • with psychology and quality of life issues, raising ELSI or affecting government policy making and patients’ decision-making.	Articles which focus on either: • Clinical methods/outcome or technical issues with no relation to ELSI or social sciences. OR • Physicians’ professional approaches, opinions, preferences, education, and knowledge concerning clinical decision-making of technical character. OR • Psychology/quality of life outcomes by way of empirical research with no ELSI or impact on patients’ decision-making.
Rejection criteria: Articles dealing exclusively with (1) Animal research; (2) Treatment outcome, unless measured in terms of population and socio-economic characteristics (i.e., national registries); (3) Clinical policies on a local level (in contrast to national/regional policies); (4) Clinical outcome and performance of technologies and protocols; (5) Processes within hospitals and clinics; (6) Prenatal testing and selection; (7) Therapeutics (non-ART) uses of stem cell research; (8) Clinical trials or reports in psychiatry/psychology with no ELSI or impact on patients’ decision-making.