Metaphor Across Adult Mental Health and Psychiatry: Canonical Dataset and Methodological Archive for a Scoping Review

This repository contains the copyright-cleared canonical analytical dataset and principal methodological materials underlying the scoping review “Provenance, Operational Role, and Function of Metaphor Across Adult Mental Health and Psychiatry: A Scoping Review”. The final analytical corpus comprises 911 canonical publications derived from 918 historical included records.

The archive includes the canonical charting dataset in XLSX and CSV formats, synthesis-stage crosswalks for mental-health context and method family, eligibility and publication-unit reconciliation records, a variable dictionary, principal quantitative audit outputs, the PRISMA flow diagram, the supplementary search record, and supplementary tables.

This is a retrospective methodological archive. It does not constitute a prospective protocol or preregistration. Review procedures, amendments, audit stages, and synthesis-stage transformations were documented contemporaneously during conduct of the review. The principal final analytical and methodological materials are made publicly inspectable in this archive.

Full abstracts and extended verbatim material from source publications are not redistributed. Bibliographic metadata, researcher-generated coding, classifications, analytical variables, and methodological reconciliation records are provided to support transparency and reproducibility.