Luca D’Aniello

Rethinking thematic evolution in science mapping:An integrated framework for longitudinal analysis

Strategic diagrams and co-word analysis are widely employed to examine the conceptual structure of scientific domains and their development over time. Yet a structural inconsistency characterises dominant longitudinal implementations: themes are detected through relational cluste...

Energy transition as the core of climate discourse: Mapping social representations in digital public debate

Climate change governance increasingly unfolds through energy transitions, yet the symbolic conditions under which these transitions are publicly interpreted remain insufficiently mapped. This study examines the representation of climate change in digital discourse during 2025, f...

A multi-phase reference matching algorithm for bibliometric analysis: design, implementation, and evaluation

Abstract Bibliometric analyses rely on accurate citation counts, yet bibliographic databases routinely contain variant representations of the same cited reference, differing in journal abbreviation style, author name format, punctuation, or metadata completeness, that fragment ci...