Bibliometric Mapping of "International Symposium On Safety Science and Technology (1998-2012) "
Bibliometric Mapping of "International Symposium On Safety Science and Technology (1998-2012) "
Bibliometric Mapping of "International Symposium On Safety Science and Technology (1998-2012) "
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School of Safety and Environmental Engineering, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, 100070, China
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Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies, Stuttgart, 70174, Germany
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Institute of Public Safety Research,Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Abstract
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 20042012 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.
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1. Introduction
Conference in Safety Science and Technology is a good way for academic exchange and distribution of the new
safety science progress among researchers and scholars. International Symposium on Safety Science and
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Technology (ISSST, http://www.issst.com.cn/) is one of the worlds most important conference in safety science and
was held in China 8 times (Beijing 1998- 2000, Taian 2002, Shanghai 2004, Changsha 2006, Beijing 2008,
Hangzhou2010 and Nanjing 2012). Thousands of papers have already been published at ISSST conferences in a
various safety related topics. All papers published at ISSST were indexed by the worlds famous conference
database - CPCI-S (the former name of CPCI-S was ISTP, 1998-2012). The main scope of the conference was on
seven basic areas in the safety science: (1) Theories and methods of safety science; (2) Safety assessment and risk
analysis; (3) Prevention of fire, explosion, dust and ventilation; (4) Safety management, education and training; (5)
Public safety; (6) Methods for reliability and probabilistic and (7) non-probabilistic safety assessment. These areas
are mainly covered within the domain of safety science.
In this study, bibliometrics mapping method was used to analyze the data set. Bibliometrics is the scientific field
that concerns with a quantitative analysis of books, articles, and other types of written communication [1].
Bibliometrics-mapping is a new and effective way to use visualization methods, showing meaningful results of raw
(or normalized) scientific data. It can be a good technique to assist experts to improve their knowledge in a certain
domain, and has been already applied to analysis of the safety related topics [2]. In this study, the bibliometrics
methods were first applied to give the numeral view of the ISSST papers during 1998-2012. Bibliometrics indicators
including annual publications trends, papers categories in Web of Science, Geographical distributions and various
ISSST topics have been analyzed in this study.
2. Data and methods
The bibliographic data set of ISSST was obtained from Web of Science Core Collection, Conference Proceedings
Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S), and starting from1990 to present. The data retrieving method was set as
CONFERENCE: (International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology); Timespan=1990-2014;
Indexes=CPCI-S. Totally 2,781 results have been collected from WoS (the data have been already shared online:
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-554179-778376.html). In this study, the VOS (visualization of similarities) map
technologies and the free software (free download http://vosviewer.com/) VOSviewer were applied to visualize the
ISSST map. There are two (label view, density view) out of four views (label view, density view, cluster density
view and scattered view) of VOSviewer which were applied in this research. One map technology was called for
giving the position of each terms in the two-dimension map. The other view is density view, used to give an
overview of the general structure of the map and shown at the most important research area. For detailed methods
and descriptions please refer here [3]. The basic analysis steps of this study are shown in Fig.1.
Data source
(Web of Science ISTP)
From 1998-2012, totally get 2,781 Records
Set up Local Database
Basic Statistical analysis
(WoS Analyze and HistCite)
Annual distribution, categories,
Geographical
Findings
o
Overall parameter of ISSST
(publications from 1998-2012)
o
The topics ISSST papers focus on
(integer and time slice analysis)
3. Results
3.1. Overview of ISSSI publications
x Publication distribution of ISSST
The publication output of ISSST is displayed in Fig.2 and Table 1. The annual publications of ISSST papers
revealed that ISSST had published 549 papers in 2004, which was the peak of publication output. Based on the
publications peak, the publication age can be divided into two parts. From 1998-2004, the publications had an
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enormous increase, while the number of ISSST publications has been gradually decreasing after 2004. These
phenomena may reflect the research activities in the field of safety in China. The cumulative number of papers
consistently increased, and can be described with the linear model y = 208.08x -415743 and R2 = 0.9835, reflecting
the annual growth trend of cumulative papers.
500
Records
400
523
492
2614
2199
300
3000
2781
2500
415
2000
1707
1500
300
200
160
1184
175
635
100
335
167
Cumulative
600
1000
y = 208.08x - 415743
R = 0.9835
500
160
0
0
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Year
Recs
Cumulative
Linear (Cumulative)
th
7th
6
th
Publication Name
Year
Place
Pages
Recs
APPY
TLCS
TGCS
2012
Nanjing
1038
167
10
2010
Hangzhou
2623
415
16
2008
Beijing
2560
492
43
5th
2006
Changsha
2570
523
11
79
4th
2004
Shanghai
3085
549
25
216
2002
Tai an
1570
300
16
60
2nd
2000
Beijing
1044
175
18
1st
1998
Beijing
1028
160
10
28
rd
Note: The information of pages of the books is obtained fromhttp://www.issst.com.cn/proceedings.htm, Recs=Full. Records of ISSST
publications are obtained from Web of Science; APPY= Average number of pages of the articles; TLCS represents local citations scores,
meaning the number of times cited by other papers in the local database (in this research, the local database included 2,781 records); TGCS is
global citations score, meaning the number of times the publications were cited by other papers in Web of Science.
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167
A
MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
335
792
ENGINEERING CIVIL
907
ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL
1351
ENGINEERING MULTIDISCIPLINARY
1707
0
500
1000
1500
2000
Environmental S&T
Physical Sciences
Physical Sciences
Computer Sci & Engineering
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Country
Recs
Percent (%)
TLCS
TGCS
Rank
Country
Recs
Percent (%)
TLCS
TGCS
Peoples R China
2367
85.1
67
423
12
Netherlands
0.3
South Korea
28
1.0
13
Russia
0.3
Taiwan
27
1.0
14
Belgium
0.2
Canada
17
0.6
15
Germany
0.2
Japan
14
0.5
16
UK
0.2
USA
12
0.4
17
Australia
0.1
France
10
0.4
18
Brazil
0.1
Poland
10
0.4
19
Iran
0.1
India
0.3
20
Saudi Arabia
0.1
10
Hungary
0.3
21
Spain
0.1
11
Italy
0.3
22
Switzerland
0.1
155
146
134
INSTITUTIONS
81
80
72
70
49
48
45
43
41
0
50
100
RECORDS
150
200
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Fig. 5. Label view of ISSST terms (in the label view, terms are displayed by label and marked with circle. The higher the occurrence of the terms,
the larger are their labels and circles. Color of the circle was used to distinguish between different clusters, which are based on the VOS
technique. In order to avoid overlapping labels only a sub-set of all labels was displayed). Figure 5B is an example of zooming of Cluster 1 (Red).
Since the published papers were mainly from China, it reflect that safety science and technology research in
China are mainly in the area of fire and coal research (please refer to Cluster 2 and Cluster 3). The highly productive
institutions, including Cent S Univ, China Univ Min & Technol and Beijing Inst Technol all have a special
departments in the area of fire and coal research. Even though the papers from 7 areas have been presented at ISSST,
the results can be mainly clustered into three areas.
While performing in depth analysis, the ISSST data were divided in two time slices, from 1998 to 2004 and from
2006 to 2012. (Fig7). VOSviewer density map was used to get an overview of the general structure of the ISSST
keywords map and show the most important area in ISSST. During the year 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004, the
resarch was mailny focused on accidents and experments. If we make a comparison between years 2006, 2008,
2010 and 2012, we will see that no siginificant changes occurred between these two periods. They have same high
frequence of the terms accident, experiment, temperature and test.
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Fig. 6. Density view of the ISSST terms (the color in the density view was ranging from red to blue. The color of a point depends on the numbers
of terms in the neighborhood of the point and on the importance of the neighboring terms. Density visualization of the ISSST terms clustered
together in two groups showed that the left side was mainly reflecting the fire safety topics and the right side the accident and management topics.
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Terms
Frequencies
Terms
Frequencies
Terms
Frequencies
accident
353
temperature
272
coal
173
index
173
experiment
271
numerical simulation
153
risk
172
pressure
199
stress
127
196
increase
124
person
145
gas
management
144
equation
142
strength
107
safety management
129
concentration
132
surface
102
assessment
109
velocity
117
face
100
100
tunnel
111
rock
97
108
load
96
industry
cause
98
experimental study
10
probability
93
experimental result
106
mining
90
11
aspect
90
flow
105
zone
86
88
water
93
bridge
83
83
deformation
81
12
enterprise
13
weight
86
space
14
network
81
simulation result
77
formula
78
15
tool
81
flame
74
coal seam
68
80
air
73
depth
68
71
vehicle
64
16
safety evaluation
17
event
66
size
18
risk assessment
66
smoke
71
wave
61
19
safety assessment
63
length
68
train
57
62
reaction
60
intensity
56
57
slope
56
20
experience
21
importance
62
diameter
22
AHP
60
evacuation
56
wall
55
23
decision
60
combustion
55
movement
54
59
heat
54
curf
53
53
24
strategy
25
methodology
57
dust
railway
53
26
evaluation method
56
ventilation
53
loading
50
27
facility
56
decrease
52
gas outburst
49
28
index system
56
propagation
52
vibration
49
52
29
plant
56
spontaneous combustion
phenomena
48
30
responsibility
55
variation
51
phenomenon
48
31
consequence
54
experimental data
48
crack
47
32
countermeasure
53
gas explosion
47
test result
47
33
regulation
50
ignition
47
mechanic
45
34
risk analysis
50
leakage
47
strain
43
35
health
48
mixture
47
Beam/soil
42
From the terms analysis we can conclude that fire safety researchand coal mine safety research were the
mainly research areas in ISSST, and also reflected strong Chinese interest in these areas. Accidents and mangement
related safety topic can be percieved as mutidisplinary aspect of the safety research, and could include nearly all the
safety resarch topics.
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Fig. 7. Hot topic in ISSST from 1998-2012 (the minimum occurrences of these terms in the map is equal or more than 10 times).
4. Conclusions
The bibliometrics mapping was used to analyze the eight times of ISSST publications during 1998-2012. Four
indicator of ISSST papers were analyzed, including temporal distribution of publications, research domains of
ISSST papers, geographical distribution and topic analysis. According to the study, papers published in ISSST could
be divided in two stages and the year 2004 represents the peak of the publications (with 549 papers). On the other
side, the cumulative number of ISSST papers was increasing linearly. The Web of Science categories of ISSST
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papers were mainly related to engineering and multidisciplinary, reflecting the main domains of safety science.
Geographical analysis has showed that Chinese authors have published 2,367(85.1%) papers, ranking the first place
among other 30 countries/territories. Additionally, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Japan and USA had relative good
performance, reflecting their take actively part in ISSST. The geographical results showed that Chinese institutions
play an important role in ISSST (Cent S Univ, China Univ Min &Techno etc.). Topic analysis revealed that safety
and accident management (management), fire safety research (Engineering) and coal mine safety (Engineering)
were three main research areas, which ISSST is focused on. Compared with overall topic analysis, similar results
were also shown for topic analysis within time slice.
In the dataset of the ISSST papers, a large amount of the references and authors names were written in different
types, and these situations made us more difficult to get exact results in this data set. This is the reason why we do
not give the results about these parameters in the study. In order to keep the high quality of ISSST papers, the high
require of the format of ISSST papers should be improved. More information about safety related bibliometrics
introduction, are being made available at http://www.safemetrics.risk-technologies.com/.
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