Psychosocial Responses to Outdoor Artificial Light at Night: A Scoping Review

A scoping review synthesizing 75 studies on psychosocial responses to outdoor artificial light at night (ALAN). The dataset, created by Kévin Nadarajah and last updated in May 2026, maps methodological approaches, main psychosocial dimensions, and findings from the literature. Research is noted to be recent and concentrated in a few countries.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in research methodologies based on the review of quantitative and cross-sectional designs.
• Identifying gaps in the literature based on the understudied cognitive, motivational, and behavioral dimensions.
• Informing policy design based on synthesized findings about perceptual and emotional responses to ALAN.

Strengths

• Follows PRISMA-ScR guidelines for systematic scoping reviews, indicating a structured methodology.
• Analyzes a defined corpus of 75 studies, providing a specific scope.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 72.8 KB file size suggests a very limited data scope, likely containing summary tables rather than raw study data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Kévin Nadarajah

Collection Method

Scoping review following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, analyzing 75 studies from seven databases.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 04:50:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Research is concentrated in a few countries, but specific geographic coverage is not stated.