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	Revisione esplorativa di mappatura del campo	Analisi dell'evoluzione tematica
Campo	Scientometria	Scientometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2005 (foundational framework); field-mapping purpose formalised c. 2015–2018	2011
Ideatore	Arksey & O'Malley (scoping review framework); field-mapping purpose formalised by Munn et al. and Peters et al.	Manuel J. Cobo and colleagues (University of Granada)
Tipo	Evidence synthesis — systematic review variant	Quantitative bibliometric technique
Fonte seminale	Munn, Z., Peters, M. D. J., Stern, C., Tufanaru, C., McArthur, A., & Aromataris, E. (2018). Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic review and scoping review approach. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18, 143.	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.
Alias	field-mapping scoping study, evidence-mapping scoping review, field map review, scoping review for field mapping	TEA, thematic development analysis, temporal thematic mapping, longitudinal theme analysis
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	A field-mapping scoping review is a purposive variant of the scoping review in which the overarching goal is to chart the conceptual and empirical landscape of a research field — identifying what has been studied, by whom, using which methods, and where knowledge gaps remain. It follows the Arksey and O'Malley scoping framework but is explicitly oriented toward producing a structured map of a field rather than answering a focused clinical or policy question.	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.