Mainstream Academic Groups and Representative Scientists of International Ergonomics (ID: 4-015)

摘要

Ergonomics, also known as human factors, is the scientific discipline concerned with interactions between humans and other elements of a system in carrying out a purposeful activity. As a new edge subject, ergonomics is introduced into China from 1970. With the development of society, it is very important for Chinese scholars and applications to know the international ergonomics development trend and learn from international experience. The author tries to use some new scientometrics methods such as information visual technology that can do some research for human factor engineering development trend and its representative scientists. The data resource of this research is came form three journals which in 33 journals in ENGNEERING.INDUSTRIAL of 2003 JCR( Journal Citation Report), Using 'Science Citation Index provided by Thomson Scientific to analyze first 50 authors of highly cited of international ergonomics during 1994-2006. The methods include Citation Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Cluster Analysis. We got the author co-citation map to identify the main research groups and representative scientists. The map reflects that there are four groups in human factor engineering: 1 human characteristic, 2 labors, 3 human -computer interaction and system. 4 theory and method of ergonomics. This is accord with the contents of ergonomics.