Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ανάλυση Βιβλιογραφικών Αναφορών με Υποστήριξη VOSviewer	Ανάλυση Συν-παραπομπών με Υποστήριξη VOSviewer
Πεδίο	Επιστημομετρία	Επιστημομετρία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1955 (citation analysis); 2010 (VOSviewer software)	1973 (co-citation); VOSviewer workflow from ~2010
Δημιουργός	Eugene Garfield (citation analysis); Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (VOSviewer)	Henry Small (co-citation, 1973); Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (VOSviewer, 2010)
Τύπος	Bibliometric workflow	Bibliometric network analysis
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538.	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.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	citation analysis with VOSviewer, VOSviewer citation mapping, visual citation analysis, VOSviewer-based citation network analysis	VOSviewer co-citation mapping, bibliometric co-citation visualization, co-citation network analysis with VOSviewer, CCA-VOSviewer
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	VOSviewer-assisted citation analysis combines established citation analysis methodology with the visual mapping capabilities of VOSviewer, a free bibliometric software developed at Leiden University. Researchers export bibliographic records from databases such as Web of Science or Scopus, import them into VOSviewer, and generate citation networks that reveal which documents, authors, or journals are most influential and how intellectual influence flows across a field.	VOSviewer-assisted co-citation analysis combines Henry Small's co-citation measure — counting how often two documents are jointly cited by later work — with VOSviewer's automated network construction and visual mapping capabilities. The result is a spatial map of the intellectual base of a research field, where documents that share many citing contexts cluster together, revealing foundational schools of thought and their relationships.