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	Analisi Co-word	Mappatura della Scienza
Campo	Scientometria	Bibliometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1983	2000s
Ideatore	Michel Callon, Jean-Pierre Courtial, and colleagues	Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen, and others
Tipo	Scientometric network analysis technique	Method
Fonte seminale	Callon, M., Courtial, J. P., Turner, W. A., & Bauin, S. (1983). From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis. Social Science Information, 22(2), 191–235.	Börner, K., Chen, C., & Boyack, K. W. (2003). Visualizing knowledge domains. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 179–255.
Alias	keyword co-occurrence analysis, co-word mapping, keyword co-word network, CWA	knowledge mapping, domain mapping, research landscape visualization
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	Co-word analysis is a scientometric technique that quantifies how often pairs of keywords, subject terms, or title words appear together across a corpus of publications. By treating simultaneous occurrence as a proxy for conceptual relatedness, it constructs networks and clusters that reveal the intellectual structure, dominant themes, and emerging sub-fields of a research domain.	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.