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

Abstract

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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“…Paper publishing trends, as measured by numbers, may be a measure of academic activity on a research topic and attention paid to a field [14]. Citation frequency is an important academic measure of publication quality.…”

“…For connection links, the thickness is the degree of international cooperation. The greater the number of texts from a country or region, the thicker the line and, the closer the cooperation relationship is between the two linked countries [14,52]. Konge, Lars is the author with the most publications (42) on the topic of VR (Table S1 in Supplementary Materials).…”

“…For connection links, the thickness is the degree of international cooperation. The greater the number of texts from a country or region, the thicker the line and, the closer the cooperation relationship is between the two linked countries [14,52]. The USA and the UK were first and second in publications, with 1409 publications and 33,185 total citations and 419 publications and 8923 total citations, respectively (Figure 4a).…”

“…The number of citations may indicate the influence of that paper in a particular academic field [14,53,54]. Highly cited references appear in Table 1.…”

“…It can identify the most influential countries, institutions, authors, works, and research trends through the quantitative results of publications [10][11][12]. Compared to traditional reviews, bibliographic analysis offers a wider perspective in terms of analysis coverage and depth of literature review [13,14]. This study focuses on the following questions.…”