Every year, millions of scientific articles are published across thousands of journals. How can researchers navigate this ocean of knowledge, identify the most influential works, and uncover the hidden structures that shape a scientific field?

Science Mapping Analysis provides a comprehensive, hands-on guide to the quantitative study of scientific literature through citation patterns, keyword co-occurrences, and collaboration networks. Written by the creators of bibliometrix — the most widely adopted open-source bibliometric tool — this book bridges the gap between methodological rigor and practical accessibility.

Organized around the SAAS workflow (Search–Appraisal–Analysis–Synthesis), the eleven chapters take the reader from foundational concepts to advanced techniques. Every method is explained with its theoretical underpinnings and demonstrated step by step through Biblioshiny, a point-and-click web interface that requires no programming expertise.

A common example runs through all chapters, showing how different techniques illuminate different facets of the same field. Mathematical formulations are included where they clarify the logic; worked examples make every analysis immediately reproducible.