1. Safety climate: Systematic literature network analysis of 38 years (1980-2018) of research
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Amit Gupta, Umesh Kumar Bamel, and Ritesh Pandey
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Safety Management ,050210 logistics & transportation ,Knowledge management ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Scopus ,Poison control ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Human Factors and Ergonomics ,Accident analysis ,Organizational Culture ,Occupational safety and health ,Work (electrical) ,Bibliometrics ,Publishing ,0502 economics and business ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Journal Impact Factor ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,business ,050107 human factors ,Network analysis - Abstract
The objective of this paper is to examine the safety climate knowledge epistemology using bibliometric and systematic literature network analysis. For this purpose, bibliometric information of research article published on safety climate topic was retrieved from Scopus databases. In total, 494 articles published between 1980 and 2018 were retrieved. These articles cover 1373 authors, 203 journals and 2511 keywords. Information collected was analyzed employing bibliometric and network analysis approach using an open source computer program R and VOSviewer. The main findings of the study reveal the publication trends in safety climate literature since 1980 to present, identifies most productive authors, and most influential research work. Our findings suggest that Haung and Zohar are the top publishing authors in safety climate domain. Zohar’s work has the highest citations. The most influential articles have been published in Journals such as Accident Analysis and Prevention, Journal of Applied Psychology, Safety Science and Journal of Safety Research. Network analysis of these articles yielded co-citation networks of most influential works, bibliographical coupling network and keywords co-occurrence network. These networks yielded the structure of safety climate knowledge. Findings of our research have theoretical and practical implications in the area of safety climate.
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- 2020