Comparar métodos

	Análise de Evolução Temática	Análise Bibliométrica
Área	Cientometria	Cientometria
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ano de origem	2011	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Autor original	Manuel J. Cobo and colleagues (University of Granada)	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Tipo	Quantitative bibliometric technique	Quantitative literature analysis
Fonte seminal	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.	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.
Outros nomes	TEA, thematic development analysis, temporal thematic mapping, longitudinal theme analysis	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
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Resumo	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.	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.