Bibliometric mapping of 'International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology (1998-2012)'

摘要

This paper aim to analyze the papers published in International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology (ISSST) in the period 1998-2012. Totally, 2781 ISSST papers were got from Web of Science, Bibliometrics indicators including annual publications, categories, geospatial distributions and topic analysis were used in this study. Results revealed that annual publications of ISSST could be divided in two stages, 1998-2004 as a period of increase in the number of publications and 2004-2012 as the period of decrease in the number of publications. The main categories of ISSST papers are in Engineering fields, that including Multidisciplinary Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering. Papers published in ISSST were originate from more than 30 countries/territories, while papers are mainly from China. In addition, these results also reflect in the institutional level. The analysis of the terms has revealed that all the topics of ISSST could be clustered into three groups, "safety and accident management", "fire safety" and "coal mine safety ". The time slice of the topic analysis also shown the similar results to the integer terms analysis.