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	Επισκόπηση Χαρτογράφησης	Ανάλυση Συν-λέξεων	Επισκόπηση πεδίου
Πεδίο	Επιστημομετρία	Επιστημομετρία	Επιστημομετρία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	Late 1990s–2000s; major methodological formalization ~2010s	1983	2005
Δημιουργός	Buckland & Gann (1998); formalized by systematic review community (Campbell Collaboration, Collaboration for Environmental Evidence)	Michel Callon, Jean-Pierre Courtial, and colleagues	Hilary Arksey & Lisa O'Malley
Τύπος	Systematic evidence mapping methodology	Scientometric network analysis technique	Evidence synthesis review design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	James, K. L., Randall, N. P., & Haddaway, N. R. (2016). A methodology for systematic mapping in environmental sciences. Environmental Evidence, 5(1), 7.	Callon, M., Courtial, J. P., Turner, W. A., & Bauin, S. (1983). From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis. Social Science Information, 22(2), 191–235.	Arksey, H., & O'Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(1), 19–32.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	evidence map, systematic map, research map, literature map	keyword co-occurrence analysis, co-word mapping, keyword co-word network, CWA	scoping study, literature scoping, evidence mapping review, rapid evidence map
Συναφείς	6	6	6
Σύνοψη	A mapping review (also called a systematic map or evidence map) is a form of systematic review that aims to chart the extent, range, and nature of evidence on a broad topic rather than synthesize findings into a single pooled answer. It categorizes studies by key dimensions — such as intervention type, population, outcome, and study design — and presents the resulting landscape visually and tabularly so that researchers and practitioners can identify clusters of evidence, knowledge gaps, and priorities for future primary research or deeper synthesis.	Co-word analysis is a scientometric technique that quantifies how often pairs of keywords, subject terms, or title words appear together across a corpus of publications. By treating simultaneous occurrence as a proxy for conceptual relatedness, it constructs networks and clusters that reveal the intellectual structure, dominant themes, and emerging sub-fields of a research domain.	A scoping review is a systematic evidence-synthesis method that maps the breadth and nature of research on a topic — identifying key concepts, evidence types, and gaps — without necessarily appraising study quality or pooling effect sizes. Developed by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and refined by Levac and colleagues (2010), it is particularly valuable for emerging or heterogeneous fields where a full systematic review would be premature or infeasible.