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	Χαρτογράφηση Επιστήμης με τη βοήθεια του VOSviewer	Βιβλιομετρική Ανάλυση
Πεδίο	Επιστημομετρία	Επιστημομετρία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2010	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Δημιουργός	Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (Leiden University)	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Τύπος	Bibliometric mapping technique	Quantitative literature analysis
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538.	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	VOSviewer science mapping, bibliometric science mapping with VOSviewer, VOS-based science mapping, VOSviewer network mapping	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	VOSviewer-assisted science mapping uses the VOSviewer software — developed at Leiden University — to construct and visualize bibliometric networks from publication metadata. It applies the VOS (Visualization of Similarities) mapping technique to reveal intellectual structures in a research field: co-authorship networks, citation landscapes, keyword clusters, and thematic frontiers, all rendered as interactive, color-coded network maps that expose how concepts, authors, and journals are relationally positioned within a discipline.	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.