Table 1. Overview of inclusion and exclusion criteria.

	Included	Excluded
Study designs	Any primary study design, including, e.g.:     • Randomized, controlled studies     • Quasi-experimental studies     • Pre-post evaluations     • Case studies	• Systematic reviews of any study designs     • Theoretical / conceptual studies     • Expert commentary     • Opinion pieces     • Conference proceedings     • Books / book chapters     • Editorials     • Other publications that are / report “non-studies”     • Dissertations / theses
Population	• The target population(s) of the study are implementation specialists.	• The target population(s) of the study are current or future implementation researchers or other non-ISPs.
Sectors	• Health care (including mental health)     • Social care / social welfare (including child welfare, aged care, labor market services, crime and justice, family services etc.)     • Education (including ECE, primary, secondary and high school services)	• IT     • Environmental services     • Any other service sector not listed in the left column.
Content	• The study focuses on supporting the implementation of a research-supported program, practice or policy AND     • the study involves a person or a team or an intermediary organization providing implementation support to others AND     • the study provides information about / conceptualizes / assesses implementation know how / skills / capacity     • Examples of interventions that could be of relevance:     • Implementation training     • Implementation coaching     • Technical assistance     • Implementation coaching     • Implementation facilitation     • Implementation policies     • Implementation mentorship	• Studies focused on the specific knowledge, skills, capacities required to implement e.g. specific clinical interventions     • Studies focused on factors that support successful practice-science / community-university partnerships     • Studies focused on online solutions only (repositories providing electronic implementation resources and nothing else)
Geography	• High income countries     • Low / middle income countries	No exclusion based on geography
Languages	• English     • German     • Danish     • Swedish     • Norwegian	Any other language not listed
Publication date	No limitations	No limitations