Reasons for exclusion at full-text stage
| Reason for exclusion | Number of articles |
| Not about complexity science | 12 |
| Not in healthcare | 31 |
| Not a peer-reviewed academic journal article | 49 |
| Article information unable to be found* | 1 |
| Total | 93 |
*Rouse WB. Managing complexity: disease control as a complex adaptive system. Information Knowledge Systems Management, 2000, 2 (2), 143–165 was published in a now discontinued journal. Citation data unavailable in Google Scholar, precluding bibliometric analysis.