The structure and emerging trends of construction safety management research: A bibliometric review.

The structure and emerging trends of construction safety management research: A bibliometric review. Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2018 Feb 26;:1-50 Authors: Liang H, Zhang S, Su Y Abstract Recently construction safety management (CSM) practices and systems have become important topics for stakeholders to take care of human resources. However, few studies have attempted to map the global research on CSM. A comprehensive bibliometric review was conducted in this study based on multiple methods. Total 1172 CSM-related papers from the Web of Science Core Collection database were examined. The analyses focused on publication year, country-institute, publication source, author, and research topics. The results indicated that the USA, China, Australia and UK took leading positions in CSM research. Two branches of journals were identified, namely the branch of engineering science, and the branch of safety science and social science. Additionally, seven themes together with 28 specific topics were detected to allow researchers to track the main structure and temporal evolution of CSM research. Finally, main research trends and potential research directions were discussed to guide the future research. PMID: 29480063 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - Category: Occupational Health Tags: Int J Occup Saf Ergon Source Type: research