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VOSviewer-assisted co-citation analysis

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.

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VOSviewer-Assisted Co-Citation Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / scientometrics
  • 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
  • van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538. · DOI 10.1007/s11192-009-0146-3
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Related methods

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Same method familyBibliographic Couplingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketBibliometric Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyCo-Citation Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCo-word Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyScience Mappingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketScientometric Analysismachine-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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