“…We used a systematic review methodology to identify, examine and evaluate all relevant data on a fascinating topic step-by-step to obtain an objective judgment. Several approaches exist for conducting a systematic review (Paul et al, 2021;Paul and Criado, 2020), such as theory-based reviews (Gilal et al, 2019), structured reviews (Mishra et al, 2021;Paul and Singh, 2017), framework-based reviews (Paul and Mas, 2020), theory development reviews (Paul and Mas, 2020), bibliometric analyses (Fahimnia et al, 2015;Maryniak and Bulhakova, 2020) and meta-analyses (Rana and Paul, 2020). For this study, we adopted the structured review approach, which aligns with our aim of developing a comprehensive understanding of the current state of activity sampling studies, identifying gaps in the literature and suggesting future research directions.…”