2.2. Phase 1: Identification

This first phase included studies published in any language between 2008 and 2018 using the key phrases. The results of the search in the databases: Web of Science (Main Collection), Scielo Citation Index, and Google Scholar yielded a total of 314, 6, and 440 documents, respectively. The details of the strategy used can be found in Table 1.

Search strategy for the scoping review of teacher turnover and attrition.

We used the EndNote X8 Bibliographic Manager to manage the documents and identified 41 duplicate documents.