An overview of scientometric mapping for the safety science community: Methods, tools, and framework

Li, Jie; Goerlandt, Floris; Reniers, Genserik

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105093

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“…Mao et al [ 10 ] employed the bibliometric mapping to quantitatively analyze industrial wastewater treatment literature publications. Li et al [ 11 ] did a preliminary overview of bibliometric mapping for the safety science community. Merigó, Miranda, Modak, Boustras, and de la Sotta [ 1 ] used bibliometric mapping to analyze forty years of safety science in terms of publications trends, leading producers (author, institutions, countries/regions), and highly cited papers and references also analyzed in the research.…”

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A Bibliometric and Visualized Overview for the Evolution of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

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This paper presents a bibliometric overview of the publications in the principal international journal Process Safety and Environmental Protection (PSEP) from 1990 to 2020 retrieved in the Web of Science (WoS) database to explore the evolution in safety and environmental engineering design and practice, as well as experimental or theoretical innovative research. Therefore, based on the WoS database and the visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer software, the bibliometric analysis and scientometric mapping of the literature have been performed from the perspectives of document types, publication and citation distribution over time, leading authors, countries (regions), institutions, the corresponding collaboration networks, most cited publications and references, focused research fields and topics, research trend evolution over time, etc. The paper provides a comprehensive and quantitative overview and significant picture representation for the journal’s leading and evolutionary trends by employing specific aforementioned bibliometric analysis factors. In addition, by reviewing the evolutionary trends of the journal and the proposed investigated factors, such as the influential works, main research topics, and the research frontiers, this paper reveals the scientific literature production’s main research objectives and directions that could be addressed and explored in future studies.

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A Bibliometric and Visualized Overview for the Evolution of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

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“…Bibliometric analysis is also a prominent scientometric analysis method, which clarifies the structure of the changes and trends of a subject area with time through the combination of mathematical and statistical methods to describe, evaluate and elucidate prospective research fields and areas of interest. Scientometric frameworks are generally applied to obtain quantitative understandings in research development, using visual aids [52,53].…”

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Mapping the Circular Economy Concept and the Global South

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2021

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Circular Economy (CE) is a concept that stems from the need to address environmental degradation, social unrest and inequalities, institutional instability, resource scarcity, and economic challenges caused by the linear nature-society-nature systems that the large portion of society operates on. The dissemination of the concept and its implementation has been taking place in several nations and institutions globally, mainly in high-income countries, otherwise known as the Global North (GN). Nevertheless, it remains unclear how the role of CE can be materialized in the low-income contexts, also referred to as the Global South (GS), despite the region being the center of production and starting to experience an expansion towards driving global consumption. Some critical issues include the lack of data, analysis, surveys, discussions, and practical contributions of the CE in the GS. Moreover, compared with the GN and the People's Republic of China specifically, little is known about the status of research conducted and case studies focusing on the GS. This study presents a bibliometric analysis to provide an overview of where and how scientists address the CE concept related to the GS. The findings clarify the most and least explored research themes, thus contributing to the current knowledge on the CE concept's advances and presenting potential relevant research and practice avenues for future focus regarding the GS.

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“…In the present work, these are extracted from the title, abstract, and keywords. Only terms which appeared at least five times are retained for further analysis, with similar terms are merged to increase clarity in and focus of the results, as is commonly recommended in scientometric analyses [28]. In total, 458 terms are retained, which are clustered using VOSviewer and subsequently transformed in heat maps to identify concentrations of higher activity.…”

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“…CiteSpace [47] is applied in this section to perform a co-citation analysis of the risk communication dataset of Section 2.1 in order to determine research clusters based on co-citation information. Co-occurrence of certain references in a set of articles within a research domain is a commonly used technique in scientometric research to identify clusters [28]. Highly cited references within these clusters can be understood as the intellectual basis of the subdomains and represent key knowledge carriers for the development of the research domain.…”

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“…In the analyses involving temporal evolutions of geographical research productivity (Section 3.2), active scientific categories (Section 3.3), narrative patterns (Section 3.5), and co-citation clusters (Section 3.6), the average publication year is used as a metric. While averages may hide significant information about the shape of the distribution, e.g., its variance or skewness, averages are commonly used in scientometric research to obtain high-level insights into the development of a research domain [28].…”

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The Landscape of Risk Communication Research: A Scientometric Analysis

Goerlandt

Reniers

2020

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Risk communication is a significant research domain with practical importance in supporting societal risk governance and informed private decision making. In this article, a high-level analysis of the risk communication research domain is performed using scientometrics methods and visualization tools. Output trends and geographical patterns are identified, and patterns in scientific categories determined. A journal distribution analysis provides insights into dominant journals and the domain’s intellectual base. Thematic clusters and temporal evolution of focus topics are obtained using a terms analysis, and a co-citation analysis provides insights into the evolution of research fronts and key documents. The results indicate that the research volume grows exponentially, with by far most contributions originating from Western countries. The domain is highly interdisciplinary, rooted in psychology and social sciences, and branching mainly into medicine and environmental sciences. Narrative themes focus on risk communication in medical and societal risk governance contexts. The domain originated from public health and environmental concerns, with subsequent research fronts addressing risk communication concepts and models. Applied research fronts are associated with environmental hazards, public health, medical risks, nuclear power, and emergency response to various natural hazards. Based on the results, various avenues for future research are described.

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An overview of scientometric mapping for the safety science community: Methods, tools, and framework

Cited by 173 publications

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A Bibliometric and Visualized Overview for the Evolution of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

A Bibliometric and Visualized Overview for the Evolution of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Mapping the Circular Economy Concept and the Global South

The Landscape of Risk Communication Research: A Scientometric Analysis

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