Bibliometric Analysis of Safety Behaviour Research
Abstract
Individuals may be able to deal with their apprehension, but it was revealed that positive emotional states about safe acts are interrelated to how they act. Accordingly, it is necessary to understand how individuals behave to be safe and evolve their behaviour. This study examines publication trends and delves into information on authors’ keywords pertinent to safety behaviour in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The metadata collected in this study is processed using the ScientoPy and VOSviewer software. The results designated that since 2008, the literature on safety behaviour has risen at a favourable rate in both databases. The top three research areas were acknowledged as (i) Psychology, (ii) Environmental Science and Ecology, and (iii) Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health. The United States contributed the most publications, followed by China and the United Kingdom. Safety behaviour has been investigated extensively and has been found to be knottily linked to the keywords of “COVID-19”, “Social anxiety”, “Assessment”, and “Mental health”. The keywords “COVID-19” and “Patient safety” have been used most frequently by prior studies in the last five years (2017 to 2021). This study highlighted the scholarly communication practices prevalent in safety behaviour research. These trends will aid researchers from various fields in identifying the core areas, core authors, and core source titles that publish this knowledge. Moreover, the result of this study encourages researchers to work together and develop new ways to study safety behaviour by glancing at the most popular keywords.
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Abdullah, K. H., & Abd Aziz, F. S. (2020b). Safety behaviour in the laboratory among chemical engineering students: An SOR paradigm. TEST Engineering and Management, 83, 22330-22346.
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Ghodrati, N., Yiu, T. W., Wilkinson, S., Poshdar, M., Talebi, S., Elghaish, F., & Sepasgozar, S. M. (2022). Unintended consequences of productivity improvement strategies on safety behaviour of construction labourers; a step toward the integration of safety and productivity. Buildings, 12(3), 1-17.
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Gu, J., & Guo, F. (2022). How fatigue affects the safety behaviour intentions of construction workers an empirical study in Hunan, China. Safety Science, 149, 1-11.
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Liu, X., Huang, G., Huang, H., Wang, S., Xiao, Y., & Chen, W. (2015). Safety climate, safety behavior, and worker injuries in the Chinese manufacturing industry. Safety Science, 78, 173-178.
Lobanova, Y., & Evtiukov, S. (2020). Role and methods of accident ability diagnosis in ensuring traffic safety. Transportation Research Procedia, 50, 363-372.
López-Cabarcos, M. Á., Vázquez-Rodríguez, P., & Quiñoá-Piñeiro, L. M. (2022). An approach to employees’ job performance through work environmental variables and leadership behaviours. Journal of Business Research, 140, 361-369.
Lyu, S., Hon, C. K., Chan, A. P., Wong, F. K., & Javed, A. A. (2018). Relationships among safety climate, safety behavior, and safety outcomes for ethnic minority construction workers. International Journal of Environmental Research And Public Health, 15(3), 1-16.
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Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2021). Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations. Scientometrics, 126(1), 871-906.
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Oswald, D., Sherratt, F., & Smith, S. (2018). Problems with safety observation reporting: A construction industry case study. Safety Science, 107, 35-45.
Padmaraj, R., & Sujatha, S. (2022). A study on workplace safety climate in manufacturing industries. Journal of Positive School Psychology, 6(3), 668-671.
Phulwani, P. R., Kumar, D., & Goyal, P. (2020). A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of recycling behavior. Journal of Global Marketing, 33(5), 354-376.
Pranckutė, R. (2021). Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The titans of bibliographic information in today’s academic world. Publications, 9(1), 12-59.
Prinsloo, H., & Hofmeyr, K. B. (2022). Organisational culture, frontline supervisory engagement and accountability, as drivers of safety behaviour in a platinum mining organisation. SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 20, 1-13.
Pronczuk, J., & Surdu, S. (2008). Children’s Environmental Health in the Twenty‐First Century: Challenges and Solutions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1140(1), 143-154.
Purohit, S. S. (2018). Implementing laboratory safety in the academic settings. Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta, 9(10), 195.
Rahman, Z., & Sofik, S. (2022). Global visualisation and knowledge mapping in the field of information retrieval (IR): A bibliometrics analysis. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 10(4), 623-647.
Roos, M., Reale, J., & Banning, F. (2022). A value-based model of job performance. PloS one, 17(1), 1-26.
Ruiz-Rosero, J., Ramírez-González, G., & Viveros-Delgado, J. (2019). Software survey: ScientoPy, a scientometric tool for topics trend analysis in scientific publications. Scientometrics, 121(2), 1165-1188.
Silkens, M. E., Arah, O. A., Wagner, C., Scherpbier, A. J., Heineman, M. J., & Lombarts, K. M. (2018). The relationship between the learning and patient safety climates of clinical departments and residents’ patient safety behaviors. Academic Medicine, 93(9), 1374-1380.
Simao, D. D. C., Karanikas, N., Cortes-Ramirez, J., & Sav, A. (2021). Workplace health and safety consultation in Australia: a scoping review. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 37(2), 97-116.
Sofyan, D., & Abdullah, K. H. (2022). Scientific developments in educational innovation research in Indonesia and Malaysia: a scientometric review. International Journal of Educational Innovation and Research, 1(1), 42-51.
Steward, J. E., Wilson, V. L., & Wang, W. H. (2016). Evaluation of safety climate at a major public university. Journal of Chemical Health & Safety, 23(4), 4-12.
Su, W. J. (2021). The effects of safety management systems, attitude and commitment on safety behaviors and performance. International Journal for Applied Information Management, 1(4), 187-200.
Sugumaran, B., Abdullah, M. S., Hadi, A., & Manaf, A. (2017). Safety compliance behaviour in manufacturing industry: A Malaysian perspective. Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(1), 66-73.
Walter, J. (2017). Safety management at the frontier: Cooperation with contractors in oil and gas companies. Safety Science, 91, 394-404.
Young, G. (2016). Unifying causality and psychology. Springer International Publishing.
Zhang, J., Xie, C., Wang, J., Morrison, A. M., & Coca-Stefaniak, J. A. (2020). Responding to a major global crisis: the effects of hotel safety leadership on employee safety behavior during COVID-19. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 32(11), 3365-3389.
Published
2022-06-01
How to Cite
ABDULLAH, Khairul Hafezad.
Bibliometric Analysis of Safety Behaviour Research.
Asian Journal of Behavioural Sciences, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 19-33, june 2022.
ISSN 2710-5865.
Available at: <https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/ajbs/article/view/18147>. Date accessed: 20 sep. 2024.
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