Compară metode

	Revizuire de tip scoping asistată de VOSviewer	Analiza co-citărilor
Domeniu	Scientometrie	Bibliometrie
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	2010s–present	1973
Autorul original	Combination: Arksey & O'Malley (scoping review, 2005); van Eck & Waltman (VOSviewer, 2010)	Henry Small
Tip	Hybrid review methodology	Method
Sursa seminală	van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538.	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.
Denumiri alternative	VOSviewer scoping review, bibliometric-enhanced scoping review, VOS-assisted scoping review, science-mapping scoping review	co-citation mapping, historiograph, direct citation, citation pair analysis
Înrudite	5	5
Rezumat	A VOSviewer-assisted scoping review integrates the structured, broad-mapping purpose of a scoping review with VOSviewer's bibliometric visualization capabilities. After standard database searching and eligibility screening, the retained records are exported to VOSviewer, which produces co-authorship, keyword co-occurrence, and citation-based cluster maps. These visual outputs guide thematic synthesis, reveal intellectual structure, and make the scope of a field immediately transparent.	Co-citation analysis is a method that identifies the intellectual structure of a research domain by examining how frequently pairs of documents are cited together in other publications. When two papers are frequently cited together in the literature, they are considered co-cited, indicating they are conceptually related or influential within the same research community. Developed by Henry Small in 1973, co-citation analysis maps the 'invisible colleges' of science—networks of researchers working on related problems—and reveals how knowledge domains evolve over time.