Methoden vergleichen

	Co-Zitationsanalyse	Wissenschafts-Mapping
Fachgebiet	Bibliometrie	Bibliometrie
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1973	2000s
Urheber	Henry Small	Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen, and others
Typ	Method	Method
Wegweisende Quelle	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.	Börner, K., Chen, C., & Boyack, K. W. (2003). Visualizing knowledge domains. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 179–255.
Aliasnamen	co-citation mapping, historiograph, direct citation, citation pair analysis	knowledge mapping, domain mapping, research landscape visualization
Verwandt	5	5
Zusammenfassung	Co-citation analysis is a method that identifies the intellectual structure of a research domain by examining how frequently pairs of documents are cited together in other publications. When two papers are frequently cited together in the literature, they are considered co-cited, indicating they are conceptually related or influential within the same research community. Developed by Henry Small in 1973, co-citation analysis maps the 'invisible colleges' of science—networks of researchers working on related problems—and reveals how knowledge domains evolve over time.	Science mapping is a bibliometric visualization method that creates visual representations of research domains, showing the structure, development, and relationships of scientific fields. Using bibliographic data (citations, keywords, authors, journals), science mapping algorithms generate network diagrams where nodes represent documents, concepts, or authors and edges represent relationships (citation, collaboration, semantic similarity). The resulting maps make invisible intellectual structures visible, enabling researchers to understand field topology, identify emerging areas, and navigate disciplinary landscapes. Pioneered by Börner, Chen, and Boyack in the 2000s, science mapping has become a standard tool in research evaluation and strategic planning.