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	Analisi dell'evoluzione tematica assistita da VOSviewer	Analisi Bibliometrica
Campo	Scientometria	Scientometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2010–2011	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Ideatore	Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (VOSviewer); thematic evolution methodology associated with Cobo et al.	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Tipo	Scientometric workflow / bibliometric visualization pipeline	Quantitative literature analysis
Fonte seminale	van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538.	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.
Alias	VOSviewer thematic mapping, keyword co-occurrence thematic evolution, science mapping thematic evolution, VOSviewer longitudinal thematic analysis	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	VOSviewer-assisted thematic evolution analysis is a scientometric pipeline that uses the VOSviewer software to build keyword co-occurrence networks across chronological time slices of a bibliographic dataset, revealing how research themes emerge, converge, fragment, or disappear over time within a scientific field. By coupling VOSviewer's density-based clustering with period-by-period comparison, researchers obtain a visual and quantitative account of a field's intellectual trajectory.	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.