השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח התפתחות תמטית	סקירת ספרות שיטתית
תחום	סיינטומטריה	סיינטומטריה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2011	1993 (Cochrane Collaboration); 2004 (Kitchenham SLR guidelines)
הוגה השיטה	Manuel J. Cobo and colleagues (University of Granada)	Archie Cochrane (conceptual foundation); formalized by the Cochrane Collaboration (1993) and Barbara Kitchenham in software engineering (2004)
סוג	Quantitative bibliometric technique	Evidence synthesis methodology
מקור מכונן	Cobo, M. J., Lopez-Herrera, A. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2011). Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1382–1402.	Kitchenham, B. (2004). Procedures for Performing Systematic Reviews. Keele University Technical Report TR/SE-0401.
כינויים	TEA, thematic development analysis, temporal thematic mapping, longitudinal theme analysis	SLR, systematic review, evidence synthesis review, structured literature review
קשורות	6	5
תקציר	Thematic evolution analysis is a bibliometric technique that divides a body of literature into consecutive time periods and tracks how research themes emerge, consolidate, split, merge, or disappear across those periods. By combining co-word analysis, clustering, and strategic diagrams for each time slice, it produces a dynamic picture of a field's intellectual development rather than a static snapshot.	A systematic literature review (SLR) is a structured, reproducible method for identifying, appraising, and synthesizing all relevant studies on a research question. Unlike a narrative review, it follows an explicit, pre-specified protocol — from database search strings through inclusion criteria to data extraction — so that the process is transparent, auditable, and replicable by other researchers. It is widely used in medicine, education, software engineering, and the social sciences to produce the most comprehensive possible evidence base on a topic.