A methodological quest for systematic literature mapping

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Table 1. Translating aims into Boolean strings.

Main focus	Thematic keywords	Summary Boolean strings
Place-making	Place-making	place-making^1
Policy transfer	Six ‘policy transfer’ concepts and ‘housing’	(“policy diffusion” OR “policy transfer” OR “policy mobility” OR “fast policy” OR “policy translation” OR “lesson drawing”) AND housing^2
Housing supply	Five ‘housing’ terms and seven ‘new supply’ terms	(housing OR house OR residential OR dwelling OR apartment) AND (supply OR developer OR “house builder” OR housebuilder OR investment OR investors OR “new homes”)^3
Housing taxation	Strategy 1: housing tax capitalisation, distribution, reform, incidence and evaluation (restricted to the OECD countries) Strategy 2: six UK taxes, each with synonymous forms	Strategy 1: 16 terms across three Boolean strings Strategy 2: 25 terms across four Boolean strings
Housing aspirations	32 keywords	Numerous terms and Boolean strings

Notes:

¹ In hyphenated and non-hyphenated form (however, many databases, including SCOPUS, read the hyphen as a space). SCOPUS Boolean string: TITLE-ABS-KEY (“place making” OR “place-making”) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English”)).

² SCOPUS Boolean string: ALL ((“policy diffusion” OR “policy transfer” OR “policy mobility” OR “policy mobilities” OR “fast policy” OR “policy translation” OR “lesson drawing”) AND housing).

³ SCOPUS Boolean string: TITLE-ABS-KEY ((housing OR house OR residential OR dwelling OR apartment) AND (supply OR developer OR “house builder” OR housebuilder OR investment OR investors OR “new homes”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (AFFILCOUNTRY, “United Kingdom”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2018) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2017) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2016) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2015) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2014) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2013) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2012) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2011) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2010) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2009) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2008) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2007) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2006) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2005)).

Table 2. Sample reduction.

	Retrieved^a	Intermediary	Included
Our work:
Housing taxation	396	–	134
Policy transfer	833	–	247
Housing supply	1,839	n.r.	361
Place-making	2,598	n.r.	1,443
Housing aspirations	3,650	n.r.	340
Others’ studies
Kearney and O’Sullivan (2003)	n.r.	–	13
O'Campo et al (2009)	289	57	15
Malpass et al. (2009)	500	–	15
Krahn et al. (2018)	342	30	6
de Jong et al. (2015)	1,430	–	1,430
O’Malley and Crouncher (2005)	2,506	212	131
Arksey and O'Malley (2005)	3,867	453	204
Lee et al. (2015)	5,884	457	46
Greenhalgh et al. (2005)	6,200	1,000	495

Notes:

^a Commonly after the removal of duplicates; n.r. stands for ‘numbers not reported’.

Figure 1. Timeline maps. Source: Soaita (2018b, p. 9).

Note: for a similar approach related to the evolution of 12 city concepts in SCOPUS database, see de Jong et al. (2015, p. 29).

Figure 2. Conceptual and geographical patterns. Source: Soaita (2018b, p. 17).

Figure 3. Conceptual and thematic engagement. Source: authors’ graphics.

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