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As multirotor UAVs become increasingly used in urban logistics, emergency response, and future low-altitude transport, noise remains a major obstacle to public acceptance. While existing UAV-noise reviews have focused on propagation, source characteristics, psychoacoustic interpretation, and regulatory assessment, less attention has been paid to the methodological design and documentation of human-response experiments themselves. To address this gap, this paper conducts a scoping review of 35 studies. It first examines the acoustic characteristics of UAV noise, and then reviews how existing studies design and implement human-response experiments. Based on this synthesis, it proposes a structured framework covering both signal-related and procedural aspects, including source acquisition, metadata control, signal preservation, propagation normalisation, participant screening, playback calibration, trial sequencing, and reporting. By integrating acoustic realism with protocol traceability, the framework aims to improve the rigour, reproducibility, and ecological validity of future psychoacoustic and psychophysiological research on UAV noise.