Call for papers for the Special issue: Mapping Safety Science – Reviewing Safety Research
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-09-30
影响因子: 4.105
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:工业 - 2区
• 小类 : 运筹学与管理科学 - 2区
Overview
Over the last decades, the volume of safety research has increased dramatically. Several development paths associated with different underlying principles have been further developed, while new paradigms emerged. New methods have been developed to ensure, assess, and assure safety, covering broad classes of safety problems, or focusing on specific problems in particular but diverse application domains. The combination of these factors makes it very hard, if not impossible, to obtain a coherent oversight of safety science as a whole, of its paradigmatic or methodological subdomains, or of developments in application domains for specific safety problems.
Literature reviews on specific topics represent a useful approach to systemize and critically assess the state of art in the safety body of knowledge. An emerging approach to gain insights in quantitative features and characteristics of science and scientific research is scientometrics. This approach places emphasis on investigations into the development of science using statistical mathematical methods. Combined with analysis and visualization techniques, scientometrics can be used to map safety science, its subdomains, or work in specific applications. Thus, scientometric analyses can create broad overviews of safety research areas, identify trends, frontiers, and key research artefacts, and provide insights in other features and characteristics of safety research.
This Special Issue “Mapping Safety Science – Reviewing Safety Research” aims to contribute to systemizing the safety body of knowledge through scientometric analyses and classical critical state of the art reviews of subdomains of safety science. This may relate to paradigmatic or methodological development paths, application domains, or specific safety problems.