“…The tool has several functions for bibliometric mapping, including collaboration analysis (e.g., authors, institutions, and countries/regions), topics analysis (e.g., keyword or terms), and citation-based analysis (e.g., bibliographic coupling and co-citations). Several papers have already applied VOSviewer to do bibliometric mapping analysis in environmental protection and safety-related topics, such as climate change [ 29 ], heavy metal removal [ 30 ], carbon emissions [ 31 ], contamination of water bodies [ 32 ], carbon capture and storage [ 33 ], soil remediation [ 34 ], safety culture [ 25 ], construction safety [ 35 , 36 ], process safety [ 37 ], domino effect [ 38 ], laboratory safety in universities [ 39 ], road safety research [ 40 ], etc.…”