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	Mappatura Scientifica Assistita da bibliometrix	Analisi Bibliometrica
Campo	Scientometria	Scientometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2017	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Ideatore	Massimo Aria & Corrado Cuccurullo (bibliometrix R package)	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Tipo	Computational bibliometric pipeline	Quantitative literature analysis
Fonte seminale	Aria, M., & Cuccurullo, C. (2017). bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 959–975.	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.
Alias	bibliometrix science mapping, R-based science mapping, bibliometrix bibliometric mapping, bibliometrix-driven knowledge mapping	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	bibliometrix-assisted science mapping is a computational approach that uses the bibliometrix R package to retrieve, clean, and analyze large bibliographic datasets, producing structured visual maps of how knowledge in a field is organized, interconnected, and evolving over time. It combines descriptive bibliometrics with network analysis and strategic clustering techniques to reveal intellectual structure, thematic frontiers, and influential actors in a research domain.	Bibliometric analysis applies statistical and mathematical methods to bibliographic records — publications, citations, authors, journals, and keywords — to measure and map the structure, output, and intellectual evolution of a research field. It is widely used to identify influential works, prolific authors, productive journals, collaboration networks, and emerging research themes across any academic discipline.