Table 1.

Search strategy: inclusion/exclusion criteria, keywords, and filter applied.

Search strategy item	Search strategy details
Scholarly databases searched	PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, ISI/Web of Science
Used string of keywords	(computational model OR mathematical model OR big data OR infodemiology OR infoveillance OR digital epidemiology OR computational epidemiology OR NDS OR healthmap OR pinterest OR Instagram OR facebook OR google plus OR YouTube OR baidu OR sina micro OR twitter OR tweets OR microblog OR microblogging OR myspace OR blogs OR vlogs OR webinars OR forum OR Wikipedia OR wikis OR wikitrends OR social media OR social network) AND ("neglected tropical diseases" OR dengue OR chikungunya OR ebola OR zika OR malaria OR west nile OR leishmania OR leprosy OR hansen’s disease OR buruli ulcer OR echinococcosis OR Chagas OR teniasis OR cysticercosis OR trachoma OR lymphatic filariasis OR mycetoma OR chromoblastomycosis OR deep mycosis)
Time filter	None (from inception)
Language filter	None (any language)
Inclusion criteria	Primary original articles addressing the usage of non conventional data approaches for neglected tropical diseases
Exclusion criteria	Review articles or primary articles lacing quantitative details or presented at congresses or conferences and published as posters or in proceedings/gray literature
Target journals	Am J Infect Control, Asian Pac J Trop Med, BMJ, Disaster Med Public Health Prep, Epidemiol Infect, Health Commun, Health Informatics J, Health Secur, Int J Environ Res Public Health, Int J Infect Dis, J Am Med Inform Assoc, J Health Commun, J Med Internet Res, JMIR Public Health Surveill, J Public Health Manag Pract, Lancet, Lancet Glob Health, PLoS Negl Trop Dis, PLoS One, Public Health, Sci Rep, Springerplus, Travel Med Infect Dis