Contemporary trends of witchcraft accusations and resulting violence against children: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis protocol

• Cara Spence ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cara Spence, Edward Salifu Mahama, Kimberly Jarvis, Samuel Adjorlolo, Solina Richter, Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cara.spence@usask.ca

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8552-0091

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• Edward Salifu Mahama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cara Spence, Edward Salifu Mahama, Kimberly Jarvis, Samuel Adjorlolo, Solina Richter, Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Languages and Information Studies, University of Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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• Kimberly Jarvis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cara Spence, Edward Salifu Mahama, Kimberly Jarvis, Samuel Adjorlolo, Solina Richter, Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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• Mary Zettl,

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Vida Nyagre Yakong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Mary Ani-Amponsah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0480-612X

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• Helen Vallianatos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Edmonton, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada

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• Samuel Adjorlolo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cara Spence, Edward Salifu Mahama, Kimberly Jarvis, Samuel Adjorlolo, Solina Richter, Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Courage Kosi Setsoafia,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Languages and Information Studies, University of Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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• Geoffrey Maina,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Solina Richter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cara Spence, Edward Salifu Mahama, Kimberly Jarvis, Samuel Adjorlolo, Solina Richter, Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Pammla Petrucka

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cara Spence, Edward Salifu Mahama, Kimberly Jarvis, Samuel Adjorlolo, Solina Richter, Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

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