# Discipline Skeleton -- Scoping Review

**Library:** Public RAM. **Authored by:** Epistemic Output Layer (S4). **Consumed by:** S4 at Phase D overlay.

Use when the invoked Librarian discipline is `scoping-review`. Scoping reviews map the extent and nature of evidence -- breadth over depth. Attach the three-axis block per mapping claim.

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## Native Skeleton (preserve)

1. **Review Question and Objectives** -- PCC (population, concept, context) statement, explicit scoping aim (not an effectiveness question).
2. **Eligibility Criteria** -- broader than systematic review; usually includes gray literature.
3. **Charting Framework** -- data-extraction fields; how evidence will be mapped.
4. **PRISMA-ScR Flow** -- identification, screening, charting.
5. **Evidence Map** -- typically a table or matrix: study design x concept x context. Counts of studies per cell.
6. **Narrative Description of the Landscape** -- what exists, what is missing, what predominates.
7. **Evidence-Type Inventories** -- mixed-methods counts, gray-literature proportion, geographic distribution.
8. **Gaps and Future-Research Implications.**

## Overlay Hooks

- Each **mapping claim** (e.g., "peer-reviewed evidence on X concept is concentrated in high-income contexts") is a claim slot. Attach the three-axis block.
- Typical claim type: descriptive. Transportability slot: `sampling_representativeness`, PIET-T Population block only.
- Surprise Register and Search Ledger render as top-level sections after Gaps.
- Methodology trace: scoping-review tag, PRISMA-ScR adherence, charting-framework version.

## Native elements that MUST survive overlay
- The Evidence Map table or matrix.
- Evidence-type inventories (counts, proportions).
- The Gaps section (this is what the caller asked a scoping review FOR).

Scoping reviews do NOT assess risk of bias at the primary-study level; the caller asked a mapping question, not an effectiveness question. The evidence axis for mapping claims captures the representativeness of the map itself, not study-level bias.
