“…3). The accident reduction could result from the growing understanding about the mechanisms of dust explosions (Kauffman, 1982;Eckhoff, 1984Eckhoff, , 1986Eckhoff, , 1995Eckhoff, , 2009Edwards et al, 1987;Dahoe, 1996 1967 ;Frank, 2004;Amyotte et al, 2009Holbrow and Tyldesley, 2003;Going and Lombardo, 2007;Eckhoff, 1996), and continuous research interest in dust explosions. With the help of the Engineering Village database, the number of published academic papers (journal papers in English only) relating to dust explosions in various periods are collected (Fig.…”