Table 3.
Results of methodological quality assessment.
| Paper No | Paper lead author (Year) | Methodological quality assessment items | No. of criteria met | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | |||
| 1 | Abós (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 2 | Aguayo (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 3 | Almonda-Tomas (2014) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 4 | Andrade (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 5 | Ardoy (2014) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 6 | Bardaglio (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 7 | Barkoukis (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 8 | Barzouka (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 9 | Bechter (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 10 | Benitez-Sillero (2021) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 11 | Bortoli (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 12 | Borzikova (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 13 | Boyle-Holmes (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 14 | Breslin (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 15 | Browne (2004) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 16 | Carlson (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 17 | Cecchini (2007) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 18 | Cecchini (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 19 | Chatoupis (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 20 | Chatzipanteli (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 21 | Chen (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 22 | Cheon (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 23 | Coe (2006) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 24 | Cohen (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 25 | Coimbra (2021) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 26 | Colella (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 27 | Coster (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 28 | Costigan (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
| 29 | Cuevas (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 30 | Dalziell (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 31 | Dalziell (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 32 | De Bruijn (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 33 | Digelidis (2003) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 34 | Duncan (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 35 | Eather (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 36 | Ellis (1995) | ✓ | 1 | |||||||||
| 37 | Ericsson (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 38 | Ericsson (2014) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 39 | Escarti (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 40 | Felver (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 41 | Fernandez (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 42 | Fisher (2011) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 43 | Font-Llado (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 44 | Franco (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 45 | Fu (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 46 | Garcia-Calvo (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 47 | Gibbons (1995) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 48 | Gibbons (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 49 | Gil-Arias (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 50 | Grasten (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 51 | Grasten (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 52 | Gray (2011) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 53 | Greco (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 54 | Gu (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 55 | Hagins (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 56 | Hartmann (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 57 | Harvey (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 58 | Hernandez (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 59 | Hortz (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 60 | How (2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 61 | Ignico (2006) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 62 | Ilker (2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 63 | Jaakkola (2006) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 64 | Jamner (2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 65 | Jansen (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 66 | Jarani (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 67 | Kalaja (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | |||||
| 68 | Karabourniotis (2002) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 69 | Kiliziene (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 70 | Kokkonen (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 71 | Kouli (2009) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 72 | Kriellaars (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 73 | Kruger (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 74 | Lakes (2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 75 | Lander (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 76 | Leptokaridou (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 77 | Lima (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 78 | lisahunter (2014) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 79 | Lonsdale (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 |
| 80 | Lopes (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 81 | Lubans (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
| 82 | Marshall (1997) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 83 | Martin (2009) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 84 | Martinez-Lopez (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 85 | Mathisen (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 86 | Mayorga-Vega (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 87 | McKenzie (1998) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 88 | Meijer (2021) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 89 | Miller (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 90 | Moreno-Murcia (2019) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 91 | Morgan (2002) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 92 | Neumark-Sztainer (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 93 | Neville (2021) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 94 | Noggle (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 95 | O'Brien (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 96 | Osterlie (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 97 | Pagona (2008) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 98 | Palmer (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 99 | Pardo (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 100 | Perlman (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 101 | Pesce (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 102 | Pesce (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 103 | Pesce (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 104 | Pietsch (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 105 | Platvoet (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 106 | Polvi (2000) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 107 | Potdevin (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 108 | Prusak (2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 109 | Reed (2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 110 | Robertson (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 111 | Rubeli (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 112 | Sallis (1999) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 113 | Sánchez-Oliva (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 114 | Schmidt (2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 115 | Schmidt (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 116 | Schmidt (2015a) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
| 117 | Schnider (2021) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 118 | Sgro (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 119 | Sharpe (1995) | ✓ | 1 | |||||||||
| 120 | Sparks (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
| 121 | Spittle (2009) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 122 | Stodjadinovic (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 123 | Sun (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 124 | Telford (2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 125 | van Beurden (2003) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 126 | van der Fels (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
| 127 | Velez (2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 128 | Viciana (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
| 129 | Wallhead (2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
| 130 | Wallhead (2014) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 131 | Weiss (2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
| 132 | Yli-Piipari (2018) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 133 | You (2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| 134 | Zhu (2016) | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||
| 135 | Zourbanos (2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||
| % of criteria present | 70% | 37% | 81% | 54% | 9% | 35% | 21% | 61% | 94% | 16% | ||