  Information exposing, in conjunction with technological innovations and the
emergence of social media, altered the traditional roles of academic libraries
and enabled librarians to become necessary partners in research. The role of
academic librarians in conducting systematic reviews is well recognised,
however, their role in conducting scoping reviews is not yet well established.
Nevertheless, we propose that, in more and more frequent situations when it is
not feasible to read and analyse all relevant literature to be scoped manually,
librarians employ bibliometric analysis and mapping to visualise and chart
literature content. Our study demonstrated that science landscapes induced
automatically by bibliometric mapping software could serve as a tool to
visualise and chart the content of relevant literature when conducting the
fourth step of scoping reviews. Additionaly science landscapes can help also
serve to help improve the decision strategies when conducting scoping reviews.
Keywords: Scoping
