Table 1.

Search date, search strings, and databases for three searches.

	Commentaries, Editorials, Tutorials, and Recommendations	Qualitative studies on Social Media Users' Views	Gray Literature
Search Date	18.10.2018	30.10.2018	18.08.2019
Search String	(moral OR ethic*) AND (“social medi*” OR “discussion forum*” OR twitter OR “social listening” OR “social networking” OR facebook) AND (health* OR medical) AND (research OR data OR evaluation* OR experiment*)	(patient* OR public OR community) AND (attitude* OR opinion* OR thought* OR idea* OR feeling* OR mindset* OR view* OR position* OR understanding* OR perspective* OR belief*) AND (“social medi*” OR twitter OR “discussion forum*” OR facebook OR “social networking” OR “social listening”) AND (health* OR medical) AND (research OR data OR evaluation* OR experiment*)	(ethic* AND (“social media” OR “patient forum” AND “discussion forum”) AND “health research”) “social media research ethics”; “social media ethics guidelines”; “guidelines on social media mining”; “ethical issues in social media research”; “social media mining for health research ethics”
Databases	MEDLINE (Ovid), Scopus and ASSIA (Proquest)	MEDLINE (Ovid), Scopus and ASSIA (Proquest)	Google