Table 1.

Summary of the information extracted (variables and categories) from each publication

	Variables	Categories
General	Author surname and initials, institutional affiliation, and country of affiliation of the first author
	Funding	Yes, no, or not declared; and if yes, private, public, or both
	Conflicts of interest	Yes, no, or not declared
Publication	Type of publication	Research paper, brief paper, review, letter to the editor, editorial, comment, or other
	Publication year
	Journal
	Open Access	Yes or no
Research	Objective of the study
	Type of design	Observational or experimental; cross-sectional or longitudinal
	Type of study data	Individual, ecological, or multilevel, with individual data from surveys as first level unit with TCS score by country as second level of aggregated data
	Main results	( literals )
	Limitations (specifically, those related to the use of the TCS as a tool to monitor tobacco control policy implementation)	( literals )
	Main conclusions and their purpose	For advocacy (when directly addressed to stakeholders and policymakers), to undertake further research on the topic, or both
Use of the Tobacco Control Scale (TCS)	Type of variable	Dependent, independent, or both
	Year of the TCS report
	Source of the TCS score(s)	Primary source, when publications included the TCS score(s) from the original reports; or secondary source, when publications included TCS data from other publications in which case the alternative data source was recorded
	Total score	Yes or no
	Individual components score(s)	Yes or no; and if yes, which components were included
	Countries from the original TCS report(s)	Yes or no; and if not, we recorded the number of countries included