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dc.contributor.authorLuo, Fansong
dc.contributor.authorLi, Rita Yi Man
dc.contributor.authorCrabbe, M. James C.
dc.contributor.authorPu, Ruihui
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T10:26:32Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T10:26:32Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-14
dc.identifier.citationLuo F, Li RYM, Crabbe MJC, Pu R (2021) 'Economic development and construction safety research: a bibliometrics approach', Safety Science, 145 (105519)en_US
dc.identifier.issn0925-7535
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105519
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/625114
dc.description.abstractThe construction industry contributes significantly to economic development worldwide, yet it is one of the most hazardous industries where numerous accidents and fatalities happen every year. Little research to date has shed light on the impact of economic development on construction safety research. In this paper, we conduct an analysis of construction safety articles published in the 21st century via a bibliometrics approach. We have analysed: (1) construction safety in developed and developing countries; (2) the major organisations that have conducted construction safety research; (3) authors and territories of the research and (4) topics in construction safety and future research directions. The largest number of published construction safety documents were published by scholars from the US and China; the total number of published articles by these two countries was 1,125, at 56% of the 2000 articles that were published. Both countries showed high levels of research collaboration. While our results suggest that economic development may drive academic construction safety research, there has been an increase in construction safety research conducted by developing countries in recent years, probably due to an improvement in their economic development. While authors’ keywords evidenced the popularity of research on safety management and climate, the network analysis on all keywords, i.e. keywords given by Web of Science and authors, suggest that construction safety research focused on three areas: construction safety management, the relationship between people and construction safety, and the protection and health of workers’ impact on construction safety. We found that there is a new interdisciplinary research trend where construction safety combines with digital technologies, with the largest number involving deep learning. Other trends focus on machine learning, Building Information Modelling, machine learning and visualisation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipthe Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. UGC/FDS15/E01/18).en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753521003623en_US
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectsafetyen_US
dc.subjecthealth and safetyen_US
dc.subjectbibliometricsen_US
dc.subjectSubject Categories::K220 Construction Managementen_US
dc.titleEconomic development and construction safety research: a bibliometrics approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHong Kong Shue Yan Universityen_US
dc.contributor.departmentOxford Universityen_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen_US
dc.contributor.departmentShanxi Universityen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSrinakharinwirot Universityen_US
dc.identifier.journalSafety Scienceen_US
dc.date.updated2021-10-18T10:22:31Z
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