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The methodology of this systematic review is based on three phases: (1) database search, (2) bibliometric analysis, and (3) systematic analysis. In the first phase, the PRISMA protocol is used and publications are obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. In the bibliometric analysis, the performance analysis and scientific mapping are carried out, using the R Studio software (version 4.02), using the biblioshiny with the bibliometrix package. The systematic analysis is based not only on the results obtained in the bibliometric analysis, but also on the methodological and content information taken from the publications. 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