Structural cartography for literature review: Revealing the underlying structure of a literature through a bibliographic atlas

• Main Authors: Joaquim Heck, Ion Georgiou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Fundação Getulio Vargas 2019-04-01
• Series: RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Subjects: Structural cartography; mapping literature; citation index; bibliographic atlas; literature review
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rae/v59n2/en_0034-7590-rae-59-02-0121.pdf

This paper presents the results of a methodological study that established a specific method for historical and bibliographic analysis known as structural cartography for literature review. Structural cartography is a rigorous and interdisciplinary method that reveals the structure of a literature knowledge domain through the methodological notions found in historical research, bibliographic investigation, citation network analysis and cartography. This paper intends to provide readers with a broad understanding of the method of structural cartography for literature review and how to apply it. Finally, this article presents twelve ways of approaching a literature structure by using the bibliographic atlas elaborated by means of structural cartography for literature review.