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.
Highlights
VOSviewer was used to analyze the journal papers in a visual, user-friendly bibliometric analysis originated from information and library science, which was first way
The cumulative percentage of the number of publications showed that nearly 50% of cumulative publications from Process Safety and Environmental Protection (PSEP) were published after 2016, which means that the most recent five years (2016–2020) have contributed roughly half of all of the papers that have been published in PSEP from 1990 to 2020
This study presents a bibliometric journal analysis perspective to explore the evolution in safety or environmental engineering design and practice, as well as experimental or theoretical innovative research
Summary
A bibliographic analysis is mainly applied to characterize the structure and research trends of a specific field or journal by utilizing a quantitative methodology [2,3,4]. It is a comprehensive visual analysis method augmented with network topology that could detect the influential authors, institutions, and countries in a specific research domain [5] and demonstrate a journal’s influence and productivity [1]. Scientific literature mapping by utilizing bibliometric methods is an effective complement to the traditional structured literature review, as it is able to provide a 4.0/).
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