Accident Prevention Analysis: Exploring the Intellectual Structure of a Research Field

Accident prevention is of great significance in avoiding or reducing all kinds casualties and economic losses, one the main challenges for social sustainable development. Hence, it has been an active research field many decades around world. To master status accident prevention, explore knowledge base hot trends, 1294 papers from WOS retrieval platform SCIE SSCI databases 1990 to 2021 were selected as data samples. Co-occurrence analysis, co-citation co-authorship keyword analysis performed on literature with bibliometric methods. The study showed that United States ranked first number publications any country/region Georgia Inst Technol institutional publications. System model establishment, construction accidents, road safety culture climate are studies core journals this Safety Science, Analysis Prevention, Pediatrics, Reliability Engineering & Safety. There four major hotspots studies: routine model-based research, systems prediction, occupational public health research. At present, basic theory structural system have basically established, directions a wide range frontier branches. management, safety, Bayesian networks, simulation frontiers prevention.