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	Nätverksbaserad kartläggningsöversikt	Bibliometrisk analys
Ämnesområde	Scientometri	Scientometri
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2000s–2010s	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Upphovsperson	Petticrew & Roberts (mapping review); network overlay adopted from bibliometric network analysis tradition	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Typ	Evidence synthesis method with network analysis overlay	Quantitative literature analysis
Ursprungskälla	Petticrew, M., & Roberts, H. (2006). Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 978-1405121101	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.
Alias	network mapping review, citation-network mapping review, network-enhanced evidence mapping, network-informed mapping review	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	A network-based mapping review combines the breadth of a traditional evidence mapping exercise with bibliometric network analysis to chart the structural landscape of a research field. Rather than simply cataloguing studies by topic, this approach constructs citation, co-authorship, or co-word networks to reveal clusters of intellectual activity, influential works, and collaboration patterns — producing both a visual and a descriptive map of the evidence base.	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.