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	Analisi Co-citazionale Assistita da bibliometrix	Mappatura della Scienza
Campo	Scientometria	Bibliometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2017 (bibliometrix implementation); 1973 (co-citation concept)	2000s
Ideatore	Co-citation: Henry Small (1973); bibliometrix package: Massimo Aria & Corrado Cuccurullo (2017)	Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen, and others
Tipo	Computational scientometric pipeline	Method
Fonte seminale	Aria, M., & Cuccurullo, C. (2017). bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 959–975.	Börner, K., Chen, C., & Boyack, K. W. (2003). Visualizing knowledge domains. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 179–255.
Alias	R bibliometrix co-citation, bibliometrix CCA, co-citation network analysis with bibliometrix, bibliometrix cocitation mapping	knowledge mapping, domain mapping, research landscape visualization
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	bibliometrix-assisted co-citation analysis combines Henry Small's co-citation measure with the open-source R package bibliometrix to map the intellectual structure of a research field. When two documents are frequently cited together by third papers, they are considered intellectually linked; the bibliometrix package automates construction of the co-citation matrix, similarity normalization, community detection, and network visualization, turning raw bibliographic exports into interpretable science maps.	Science mapping is a bibliometric visualization method that creates visual representations of research domains, showing the structure, development, and relationships of scientific fields. Using bibliographic data (citations, keywords, authors, journals), science mapping algorithms generate network diagrams where nodes represent documents, concepts, or authors and edges represent relationships (citation, collaboration, semantic similarity). The resulting maps make invisible intellectual structures visible, enabling researchers to understand field topology, identify emerging areas, and navigate disciplinary landscapes. Pioneered by Börner, Chen, and Boyack in the 2000s, science mapping has become a standard tool in research evaluation and strategic planning.