Comparer des méthodes

	Analyse de co-citation	Analyse par couplage bibliographique
Domaine	Bibliométrie	Bibliométrie
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1973	1963
Auteur d'origine	Henry Small	Melvin M. Kessler
Type	Method	Method
Source fondatrice	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.	Kessler, M. M. (1963). Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers. American Documentation, 14(3), 123–131.
Alias	co-citation mapping, historiograph, direct citation, citation pair analysis	document coupling, bibliographic similarity
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	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.	Bibliographic coupling is a method that identifies intellectual relationships between documents by measuring their shared references. Two papers are considered 'coupled' when they cite the same sources, indicating they address related research questions or draw from the same conceptual foundations. Introduced by Kessler in 1963, this approach enables researchers to map knowledge domains and discover thematically similar publications without relying on subject cataloging or keywords.