Purpose:We aimed to measure the variation in researchers’knowledge and attitudes towards bibliometric indicators.The focus is on mapping the heterogeneity of this metric-wiseness within and between disciplines.Design...Purpose:We aimed to measure the variation in researchers’knowledge and attitudes towards bibliometric indicators.The focus is on mapping the heterogeneity of this metric-wiseness within and between disciplines.Design/methodology/approach:An exploratory survey is administered to researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome,one of Europe’s oldest and largest generalist universities.To measure metric-wiseness,we use attitude statements that are evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale.Moreover,we analyze documents of recent initiatives on assessment reform to shed light on how researchers’heterogeneous attitudes regarding and knowledge of bibliometric indicators are taken into account.Findings:We found great heterogeneity in researchers’metric-wiseness across scientific disciplines.In addition,within each discipline,we observed both supporters and critics of bibliometric indicators.From the document analysis,we found no reference to individual heterogeneity concerning researchers’metric wiseness.Research limitations:We used a self-selected sample of researchers from one Italian university as an exploratory case.Further research is needed to check the generalizability of our findings.Practical implications:To gain sufficient support for research evaluation practices,it is key to consider researchers’diverse attitudes towards indicators.Originality/value:We contribute to the current debate on reforming research assessment by providing a novel empirical measurement of researchers’knowledge and attitudes towards bibliometric indicators and discussing the importance of the obtained results for improving current research evaluation systems.展开更多
The rapid industrialization and urbanization in China require a high level of safety management and thus urge the development of safety risk assessment in China.In the past two decades,many safety risk assessment rese...The rapid industrialization and urbanization in China require a high level of safety management and thus urge the development of safety risk assessment in China.In the past two decades,many safety risk assessment research findings have been published in international journals by Chinese scholars,while it is not clear the development progress and China’s contributions to the world in this research field.Therefore,a systematic and thorough literature review is conducted to investigate risk assessment research in China.Firstly,the research publications authored by Chinese scholars are searched from the well-known literature database Web of Science to support the analysis of risk assessment research in China.Secondly,a bibliometric analysis is conducted for the obtained literature related to risk assessment research in China to find out publication trends,research organizations,research authors,research topics,and research methods.Then,a thorough analysis of research topics and research methods is carried out to present the research progress.Finally,possible future research issues in the risk assessment research domain are discussed based on this literature review.According to the discussion,more attention in China should be paid to the risk of digital or autonomous systems,the risk related to extreme events,and the risk in large cities.展开更多
Safety management systems(SMSs)are widely applied across many industrial sectors,and a large body of liter-ature has been published addressing their design,implementation,effectiveness,and associated challenges.This a...Safety management systems(SMSs)are widely applied across many industrial sectors,and a large body of liter-ature has been published addressing their design,implementation,effectiveness,and associated challenges.This article presents a high-level analysis of the SMS research domain,guided by a set of questions addressing the contents,structure,and evolution the research domain,its dominant themes and focus topics,the key scientific domains and journals contributing to its development,and the key publications serving as an intellectual basis for SMS related research.The results show a rapidly increasing volume of research outputs and a shift from re-search based in North America and Europe to Asia and Australia.There is only a limited number of institutions enduringly contributing to the field,and there are relatively few stable research collaborations,with the number of Chinese institutions publishing SMS related research fast expanding in recent years.The domain is strongly interdisciplinary and embedded in applied domains of science,with industrial engineering the most contribut-ing category,as well as categories focusing on the industrial application domains.A temporal evolution of the research activity in different application domains is apparent,with an initial focus on occupational health and safety,followed by process safety,patient safety,food safety,and construction safety.SMS research has a strong relation to safety culture and safety climate research,and while safety and risk management concepts and theo-ries form an important knowledge base for most application domains,the dominant views on accident causation differ between these.Research on SMS in the food industry is relatively separated from the other application domains.Based on the findings,various future research directions are discussed.展开更多
There is a recent interest to understand the nature of the safety science discipline and to obtain insights in its development patterns and research trends.This article analyzes the evolution of the prevalence and sca...There is a recent interest to understand the nature of the safety science discipline and to obtain insights in its development patterns and research trends.This article analyzes the evolution of the prevalence and scale of collaborative publishing and the macro-level collaboration scale of the Safety Science research community.Additionally,an analysis of the evolution of influential research topics of the core researchers’collaboration networks provides insights in the domain’s high-level development trends.Both the prevalence and scale of scientific collaboration are found to have increased dramatically since the inception of Journal of Occupational Accidents,Safety Science’s predecessor.Research networks have grown significantly,and collaboration between core researchers has steadily increased.Even though this indicates that a core safety science research community has developed,it is also found that the journal continues to serve as a platform for many small and unconnected author clusters.In terms of influential research topics,there is a notable shift from technical aspects of work safety towards psychological and organizational mechanisms of safety.More recently,influential work of core research networks has additionally focused on safety and risk models and methods,the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the domain,and influential research clusters have formed around safety in specific industries.The focus topics of core researcher’s collaboration clusters furthermore highlight the variety of conceptual,theoretical,and methodological approaches co-existing within Safety Science.Various implications of the findings are discussed,where both possible benefits and drawbacks of increased collaboration are highlighted and future research avenues outlined.展开更多
基金supported by the Sapienza Universitàdi Roma Sapienza Awards no.6H15XNFS.
文摘Purpose:We aimed to measure the variation in researchers’knowledge and attitudes towards bibliometric indicators.The focus is on mapping the heterogeneity of this metric-wiseness within and between disciplines.Design/methodology/approach:An exploratory survey is administered to researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome,one of Europe’s oldest and largest generalist universities.To measure metric-wiseness,we use attitude statements that are evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale.Moreover,we analyze documents of recent initiatives on assessment reform to shed light on how researchers’heterogeneous attitudes regarding and knowledge of bibliometric indicators are taken into account.Findings:We found great heterogeneity in researchers’metric-wiseness across scientific disciplines.In addition,within each discipline,we observed both supporters and critics of bibliometric indicators.From the document analysis,we found no reference to individual heterogeneity concerning researchers’metric wiseness.Research limitations:We used a self-selected sample of researchers from one Italian university as an exploratory case.Further research is needed to check the generalizability of our findings.Practical implications:To gain sufficient support for research evaluation practices,it is key to consider researchers’diverse attitudes towards indicators.Originality/value:We contribute to the current debate on reforming research assessment by providing a novel empirical measurement of researchers’knowledge and attitudes towards bibliometric indicators and discussing the importance of the obtained results for improving current research evaluation systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51904185,51974269).
文摘The rapid industrialization and urbanization in China require a high level of safety management and thus urge the development of safety risk assessment in China.In the past two decades,many safety risk assessment research findings have been published in international journals by Chinese scholars,while it is not clear the development progress and China’s contributions to the world in this research field.Therefore,a systematic and thorough literature review is conducted to investigate risk assessment research in China.Firstly,the research publications authored by Chinese scholars are searched from the well-known literature database Web of Science to support the analysis of risk assessment research in China.Secondly,a bibliometric analysis is conducted for the obtained literature related to risk assessment research in China to find out publication trends,research organizations,research authors,research topics,and research methods.Then,a thorough analysis of research topics and research methods is carried out to present the research progress.Finally,possible future research issues in the risk assessment research domain are discussed based on this literature review.According to the discussion,more attention in China should be paid to the risk of digital or autonomous systems,the risk related to extreme events,and the risk in large cities.
基金through a grant by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)supported by the National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51874042 and 51904185).
文摘Safety management systems(SMSs)are widely applied across many industrial sectors,and a large body of liter-ature has been published addressing their design,implementation,effectiveness,and associated challenges.This article presents a high-level analysis of the SMS research domain,guided by a set of questions addressing the contents,structure,and evolution the research domain,its dominant themes and focus topics,the key scientific domains and journals contributing to its development,and the key publications serving as an intellectual basis for SMS related research.The results show a rapidly increasing volume of research outputs and a shift from re-search based in North America and Europe to Asia and Australia.There is only a limited number of institutions enduringly contributing to the field,and there are relatively few stable research collaborations,with the number of Chinese institutions publishing SMS related research fast expanding in recent years.The domain is strongly interdisciplinary and embedded in applied domains of science,with industrial engineering the most contribut-ing category,as well as categories focusing on the industrial application domains.A temporal evolution of the research activity in different application domains is apparent,with an initial focus on occupational health and safety,followed by process safety,patient safety,food safety,and construction safety.SMS research has a strong relation to safety culture and safety climate research,and while safety and risk management concepts and theo-ries form an important knowledge base for most application domains,the dominant views on accident causation differ between these.Research on SMS in the food industry is relatively separated from the other application domains.Based on the findings,various future research directions are discussed.
基金Canada Research Chairs Program,through a grant by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51904185 and 51874042)。
文摘There is a recent interest to understand the nature of the safety science discipline and to obtain insights in its development patterns and research trends.This article analyzes the evolution of the prevalence and scale of collaborative publishing and the macro-level collaboration scale of the Safety Science research community.Additionally,an analysis of the evolution of influential research topics of the core researchers’collaboration networks provides insights in the domain’s high-level development trends.Both the prevalence and scale of scientific collaboration are found to have increased dramatically since the inception of Journal of Occupational Accidents,Safety Science’s predecessor.Research networks have grown significantly,and collaboration between core researchers has steadily increased.Even though this indicates that a core safety science research community has developed,it is also found that the journal continues to serve as a platform for many small and unconnected author clusters.In terms of influential research topics,there is a notable shift from technical aspects of work safety towards psychological and organizational mechanisms of safety.More recently,influential work of core research networks has additionally focused on safety and risk models and methods,the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the domain,and influential research clusters have formed around safety in specific industries.The focus topics of core researcher’s collaboration clusters furthermore highlight the variety of conceptual,theoretical,and methodological approaches co-existing within Safety Science.Various implications of the findings are discussed,where both possible benefits and drawbacks of increased collaboration are highlighted and future research avenues outlined.
