Analysis of Frontier Knowledge Graph for Safety Culture Research

Abstract

To explore the current leading institutions, scientists, and their research interests and to predict the future hot topics of safety culture, CiteSpace5.7.R1 was used to analyze the 17,910 articles collected from the Web of Science (WoS) after searching “safety culture” for literature published between 1985 to 2021. The number of publications has increased year over year. The USA, Peoples Republic of China, and England were the top countries producing literature in the safety culture research field, and J Bryan Sexton, Peter J Pronovost, and Cordula Wagner were the most productive authors with high outputs, but these authors lack communication and collaborations with each other. Moreover, current studies focus primarily on patient safety, in vitro, food safety, efficacy, and sediment. It is speculated that future studies could concentrate on food safety culture, psychological safety, adverse events, and patient safety culture. This study provides a new approach to visualize relevant data over the past three decades to synthesize the scientific research findings on safety culture.