השוואת שיטות

	מיפוי מדעי בסיוע VOSviewer	ניתוח סיינטומטרי
תחום	סיינטומטריה	סיינטומטריה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2010	1969 (term); 1963 (Price's foundational work)
הוגה השיטה	Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (Leiden University)	V. V. Nalimov and Z. M. Mulchenko (term coined); Derek J. de Solla Price (foundational methods)
סוג	Bibliometric mapping technique	Quantitative literature analysis
מקור מכונן	van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538.	Nalimov, V. V., & Mulchenko, Z. M. (1969). Naukometriya: Izucheniye razvitiya nauki kak informatsionnogo protsessa [Scientometrics: The Study of the Development of Science as an Information Process]. Nauka.
כינויים	VOSviewer science mapping, bibliometric science mapping with VOSviewer, VOS-based science mapping, VOSviewer network mapping	scientometrics, science of science, quantitative science studies, research evaluation analysis
קשורות	6	6
תקציר	VOSviewer-assisted science mapping uses the VOSviewer software — developed at Leiden University — to construct and visualize bibliometric networks from publication metadata. It applies the VOS (Visualization of Similarities) mapping technique to reveal intellectual structures in a research field: co-authorship networks, citation landscapes, keyword clusters, and thematic frontiers, all rendered as interactive, color-coded network maps that expose how concepts, authors, and journals are relationally positioned within a discipline.	Scientometric analysis applies statistical and computational methods to publication and citation data to measure the growth, structure, and impact of scientific fields. Drawing on databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, or OpenAlex, it quantifies output trends, identifies leading authors and institutions, maps intellectual networks, and evaluates research impact — transforming large bibliographic corpora into evidence-based portraits of how knowledge develops and spreads.