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Safety and Risk Management

Safety and Risk Management is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1959. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on emergency management, including the design and evaluation of refuge chambers, disaster response systems, risk assessment in various industries such as coal mining, urban safety, and traffic management. It also covers topics related to emergency capability assessment, GIS-based decision support systems, and urban crisis management.

  • Emergency Management
  • Refuge Chamber
  • Disaster Response
  • Urban Safety
  • Risk Assessment
  • Coal Mine
  • Emergency Capability
  • GIS-based System
  • Traffic Safety
  • Decision Support
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1959
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+57%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Safety and Risk Management

Which countries lead Safety and Risk Management research?

By volume, China and Vietnam publish the most (1.1k and 50 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 Vietnam 50 works
  3. 3 United States 35 works
  4. 4 India 32 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 24 works
  6. 6 Japan 23 works
  7. 7 ?? 20 works
  8. 8 Russia 16 works
  9. 9 South Korea 15 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 12 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 82.2%Vietnam: 3.9%United States: 2.8%India: 2.5%6 others listed: 8.6%82%largest
China1,051 · 82.2%Vietnam50 · 3.9%United States35 · 2.8%India32 · 2.5%6 others listed110 · 8.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Safety and Risk Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, China University of Mining and Technology publishes the most Safety and Risk Management research, followed by Xi'an University of Science and Technology and Liaoning Technical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 47 works
  2. 2 Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 25 works
  3. 3 Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 17 works
  4. 4 Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 17 works
  5. 5 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 15 works
  6. 6 Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 13 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 12 works
  8. 8 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 10 works
  9. 9 Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 8 works
  10. 10 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Safety and Risk Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Safety and Risk Management include Jin Li and Guoqing Hu.

  1. 1 Jin Li China 132k citations
  2. 2 Guoqing Hu China 129k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Safety and Risk Management?

The most cited paper in Safety and Risk Management is "Behavioral foundations of community emergency planning" (Michael K. Lindell, Ronald W. Perry, 1992), with 498 citations. Next come "Environmental impact of coal mine methane emissions and responding strategies in China" (290) and "Risk assessment of gas explosion in coal mines based on fuzzy AHP and bayesian network" (239).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Behavioral foundations of community emergency planning Michael K. Lindell, Ronald W. Perry Apr 1992 498
2 Environmental impact of coal mine methane emissions and responding strategies in China Yuanping Cheng, Lei Wang, Xiaolei Zhang · International journal of greenhouse gas control 23 Aug 2010 290
3 Risk assessment of gas explosion in coal mines based on fuzzy AHP and bayesian network Min Li, Hetang Wang, Deming Wang et al. · Process Safety and Environmental Protection 11 Jan 2020 239
4 Research on 10-year tendency of China coal mine accidents and the characteristics of human factors Hong Chen, Hui Qi, Ruyin Long et al. · Safety Science 11 Sep 2011 229
5 Characteristics and trends of coal mine safety development Xuelong Li, Zuoyong Cao, Youlin Xu · Energy Sources Part A Recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects Dec 2020 221
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Safety and Risk Management research done?

The largest centres of Safety and Risk Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Xuzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xuzhou, Hanoi and Xi'an.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 234 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 58 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 57 works
  4. 4 XuzhouChina 51 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 46 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 43 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 31 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 28 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 27 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XuzhouCN · 50.8 works41×
  2. HanoiVN · 20.8 works9.4×
  3. Xi'anCN · 56.6 works5.5×
  4. BeijingCN · 234.2 works5.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Safety and Risk Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Safety and Risk Management?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Mining and Technology, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and Anhui University of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 30.9857%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Anhui University of …China University of …Xi'an University of …Shandong University …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 86.440.2%51.0×47 +43.6%
2Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.035.4%92.2×25 +41.8%
3Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 54.450.9%29.1×8 +147.0%
4Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 34.932.3%22.0×12 -34.9%
5Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 32.425.5%84.9×17 +373.7%
6Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 27.619.0%49.8×17 +253.1%
7Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 17.413.6%13.6×10 -2.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Safety and Risk Management, country by country

Is Safety and Risk Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Safety and Risk Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Safety and Risk Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0076% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Safety and Risk Management0.0060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Safety and Risk Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Safety and Risk Management10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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