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	Analisi co-citazionale assistita da VOSviewer	Analisi di Accoppiamento Bibliografico
Campo	Scientometria	Bibliometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1973 (co-citation); VOSviewer workflow from ~2010	1963
Ideatore	Henry Small (co-citation, 1973); Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (VOSviewer, 2010)	Melvin M. Kessler
Tipo	Bibliometric network analysis	Method
Fonte seminale	Small, H. (1973). Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), 265–269.	Kessler, M. M. (1963). Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers. American Documentation, 14(3), 123–131.
Alias	VOSviewer co-citation mapping, bibliometric co-citation visualization, co-citation network analysis with VOSviewer, CCA-VOSviewer	document coupling, bibliographic similarity
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	VOSviewer-assisted co-citation analysis combines Henry Small's co-citation measure — counting how often two documents are jointly cited by later work — with VOSviewer's automated network construction and visual mapping capabilities. The result is a spatial map of the intellectual base of a research field, where documents that share many citing contexts cluster together, revealing foundational schools of thought and their relationships.	Bibliographic coupling is a method that identifies intellectual relationships between documents by measuring their shared references. Two papers are considered 'coupled' when they cite the same sources, indicating they address related research questions or draw from the same conceptual foundations. Introduced by Kessler in 1963, this approach enables researchers to map knowledge domains and discover thematically similar publications without relying on subject cataloging or keywords.