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Co-Citation Analysis

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.

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Co-Citation Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / bibliometrics
  • 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
  • Small, H., & Griffiths, B. C. (1974). The structure of scientific literatures I: Identifying and graphing specialties. Science Studies, 4(1), 17–40. · DOI 10.1177/030631277400400102
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Taxonomic bucketBibliographic Couplingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketJournal Co-Citation Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyKeyword Co-Occurrence Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyResearch Front Identificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyScience Mappingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

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