Profile of Reliability Engineering ＆ System Safety in the 21 years of the 21st century: An informetric-based analysis

摘要

The objective of this study is to provide a case study of informetric and bibliometric analysis,by building up a profile for the journal of Reliability Engineering ＆ System Safety in the 21st century,based on the data collected in Web of Science and the tool of VOSViewer.4821 articles published in the journal in 2001-2021 have been adopted as the dataset.The keywords of these articles are analyzed and clustered,the main applications of these studies are identified,and the temporal development trend of the topics are discussed.The most productive countries/regions,institutions and individual researchers for the journal are presented and the collaboration relationships at the national and institutional levels are investigated and visualized.Distribution of author genders is surveyed based on a sample.Then,the citation situation of articles in the journal is analyzed,and the potential impact factors on citations,including number of authors,number of participating institutions and countries/regions,number of references,and topics are studied.Finally,evidence on whether open access can influence citations of articles is provided.Readers of this article are expected to understand more about how bibliometric analysis support journal analysis and development analysis in a certain domain.