Electronic search preliminary results
| Database | Date of search | Keywords | Number of publications retrieved |
| PubMed | 28 March 2018 | (malaria OR plasmodium) | 97 492 |
| (malaria OR plasmodium) AND (map* OR geographic information systems OR GIS OR global positioning system OR GPS) | 1078 | ||
| (malaria OR plasmodium) AND (map* OR geographic information systems OR GIS OR global positioning system OR GPS) AND (spatial OR space-time OR space* OR spatio-temporal OR spatio* OR spatial cluster OR small area OR small-area OR bayesian OR geo statistical OR modelling) | 352 | ||
| Limit publication year from 1968 to 2018 | 352 |