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PRISMA-compliant Co-citation analysis

PRISMA-compliant co-citation analysis is a systematic bibliometric method that applies the PRISMA 2020 reporting framework to co-citation analysis. It identifies intellectual clusters in a research field by measuring how frequently pairs of documents are cited together, while ensuring full transparency of the literature search, screening decisions, and analytic choices through a pre-registered protocol and standardised flow diagram.

Evidence statusSources recorded, not reviewedBibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Source record

Recorded

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

PRISMA-Compliant Co-Citation Analysis

Taxonomic method recordprocess-pipelinescientometrics

  1. Page, M. J., McKenzie, J. E., Bossuyt, P. M., Boutron, I., Hoffmann, T. C., Mulrow, C. D., ... & Moher, D. (2021). The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ, 372, n71. · DOI 10.1136/bmj.n71

  2. Small, H. (1973). Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), 265-269. · DOI 10.1002/asi.4630240406

Open full method2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Curated claims

Assessed

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

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Related methods

Suggested6

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