Citation

Li J, Hale A. Safety Sci. 2015; 74: 70-78.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssci.2014.12.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Safety science is an emerging discipline and research field, whose results have been traditionally spread over many journals, drawn both from the new discipline and its constituent underlying disciplines. Citation analysis was used to identify core safety science journals and map the knowledge communication between them. Using co-citation analysis and VOS methods, 51 safety-related journals and 8 clusters were extracted from the references of the journal Safety Science, which was taken as a representative core journal. Furthermore, the safety science citation report 2012 and 2013 were used to analyse the knowledge communication between different safety related journals. The results demonstrated that Safety Science as journal currently sits closer to management and psychology journals than to technology journals. The 8 clusters derived from the co-citation analysis show the multidisciplinarity of the safety science field as do the analyses of the citing by and of Safety Science as journal. The paper is designed to show the potential of this sort of analysis for generating and studying questions about the structure and development of the discipline of safety science through its publication history.