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	Tematisk evolutionär analys	Bibliometrisk analys
Ämnesområde	Scientometri	Scientometri
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2011	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Upphovsperson	Manuel J. Cobo and colleagues (University of Granada)	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Typ	Quantitative bibliometric technique	Quantitative literature analysis
Ursprungskälla	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.
Alias	TEA, thematic development analysis, temporal thematic mapping, longitudinal theme analysis	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	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.