Table 1.

Reasons for exclusion at full-text stage

Reason for exclusion	Number of articles
Not about complexity science	12
Not in healthcare	31
Not a peer-reviewed academic journal article	49
Article information unable to be found*	1
Total	93

*Rouse WB. Managing complexity: disease control as a complex adaptive system. Information Knowledge Systems Management, 2000, 2 (2), 143–165 was published in a now discontinued journal. Citation data unavailable in Google Scholar, precluding bibliometric analysis.