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	Anàlisi Bibliomètrica	Anàlisi d'acoblament bibliogràfic
Camp	Cienciometria	Bibliometria
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s	1963
Autor original	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)	Melvin M. Kessler
Tipus	Quantitative literature analysis	Method
Font seminal	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.	Kessler, M. M. (1963). Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers. American Documentation, 14(3), 123–131.
Àlies	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis	document coupling, bibliographic similarity
Relacionats	6	5
Resum	Bibliometric analysis applies statistical and mathematical methods to bibliographic records — publications, citations, authors, journals, and keywords — to measure and map the structure, output, and intellectual evolution of a research field. It is widely used to identify influential works, prolific authors, productive journals, collaboration networks, and emerging research themes across any academic discipline.	Bibliographic coupling is a method that identifies intellectual relationships between documents by measuring their shared references. Two papers are considered 'coupled' when they cite the same sources, indicating they address related research questions or draw from the same conceptual foundations. Introduced by Kessler in 1963, this approach enables researchers to map knowledge domains and discover thematically similar publications without relying on subject cataloging or keywords.