Table 1 Eligibility criteria

1) Article actively aims to understand, identify or explain the influence of gender on health, whereby the role of gender can encompass a variety of mechanisms, processes or states of differentiation, discrimination and/or inequality

2) (At least one sub-group of) the study population meets the definition of migrants, understood as follows: individuals that either migrated themselves or whose both parents migrated

3) Epidemiological original research according to Porta (2008) [47], incl. Observational and interventional studies

4) Published before September 2019 and full text available (2nd screening stage)

5) No exclusion based on the language of the publication

1) Articles restricted to sex-specific health differences or analyses of the health of sexual minorities (i.e. lesbian, gay bisexual, trans, queer or intersex people -LGBTQI+) without considering the social dimension of gender (as opposed to sex or sexual dimension)

2) Gender norms/roles/relations are only considered in the discussion of findings and/or the underlying concepts and mechanisms are not operationalised in the data collection and/or analysis process

3) Migration is not a concept of major importance and migration-related characteristics are not explicitly analysed

4) Exclusively theoretical, methods development focussed, or policy-related research

5) Articles in form of editorials or commentaries

6) Qualitative study design