“…Next, not all articles could be employed for further analysis because they were review articles, and certain articles did not contain data on N and P removal amounts. By reading the title, abstract, and text of the articles during screening, 27 articles (Huang and He, 2011;Wu et al, 2011;Xiong et al, 2011;Barca et al, 2013;Shilton et al, 2013;Barca et al, 2014;Ren et al, 2014;Shi et al, 2014;Cui et al, 2015;Ge et al, 2015;Hussain et al, 2015;Yun et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2015;Blanco et al, 2016;Ge et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2016;Mohamed et al, 2016;Ahmad et al, 2017;Shi P. et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;Yuan et al, 2017;Adera et al, 2018;Xu et al, 2019;Chen et al, 2020;Hamdan et al, 2020;Saeed et al, 2020;Wan et al, 2020) met our requirement and were finally selected for data analysis, which provided a highly uniform dataset and reliable results. Datasets of the substrate filling mode, plant cultivation, flow direction of CW, steel slag particle size (SSPS), temperature (T), hydraulic retention time (HRT), hydraulic loading rate (HLR), pH value (pH), influent concentration (C in ), total nitrogen (TN), NH 4 + -N, and TP removal amounts (ΔC = C in − C out ) were extracted from these articles, and some original data were modified.…”