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Co-word Analysis

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.

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Co-word Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / scientometrics
  • 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. · DOI 10.1177/053901883022002003
  • He, Q. (1999). Knowledge discovery through co-word analysis. Library Trends, 48(1), 133–159. · URL
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