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	Mappatura della scienza assistita da VOSviewer	Analisi Co-word
Campo	Scientometria	Scientometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2010	1983
Ideatore	Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (Leiden University)	Michel Callon, Jean-Pierre Courtial, and colleagues
Tipo	Bibliometric mapping technique	Scientometric network analysis technique
Fonte seminale	van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538.	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.
Alias	VOSviewer science mapping, bibliometric science mapping with VOSviewer, VOS-based science mapping, VOSviewer network mapping	keyword co-occurrence analysis, co-word mapping, keyword co-word network, CWA
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	VOSviewer-assisted science mapping uses the VOSviewer software — developed at Leiden University — to construct and visualize bibliometric networks from publication metadata. It applies the VOS (Visualization of Similarities) mapping technique to reveal intellectual structures in a research field: co-authorship networks, citation landscapes, keyword clusters, and thematic frontiers, all rendered as interactive, color-coded network maps that expose how concepts, authors, and journals are relationally positioned within a discipline.	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.