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	Fältkartläggande Metaetnografi	Tematisk evolutionär analys
Ämnesområde	Scientometri	Scientometri
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1988 (meta-ethnography); field-mapping application 2000s–2010s	2011
Upphovsperson	Noblit & Hare (meta-ethnography base); field-mapping frame developed in review methodology literature	Manuel J. Cobo and colleagues (University of Granada)
Typ	Qualitative evidence synthesis with field-mapping scope	Quantitative bibliometric technique
Ursprungskälla	Noblit, G. W., & Hare, R. D. (1988). Meta-ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803930599	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.
Alias	field-mapping qualitative synthesis, scoping meta-ethnography, field-mapping qualitative meta-synthesis, landscape meta-ethnography	TEA, thematic development analysis, temporal thematic mapping, longitudinal theme analysis
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	Field-mapping meta-ethnography combines the breadth of a field-mapping (scoping) review with the interpretive synthesis power of meta-ethnography. It first maps the full landscape of qualitative studies on a topic to understand what has been studied and how, then applies Noblit and Hare's seven-step meta-ethnographic synthesis to generate second-order and third-order constructs that represent the accumulated qualitative evidence across that field.	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.