Bibliometric Analysis of Research Topics on Fire Safety

Abstract

Various studies have been conducted to minimize property damage and casualties caused by fire accidents, which occur over 40,000 times annually on average. The research papers published in the Fire Science and Engineering journal indexed in the Korea Citation Index and the Fire Technology journal indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded databases over the last 10 years were analyzed utilizing text-mining techniques. Similar research papers published these two journals were explored and significant differences in perceptions were identified. Recently, the proportion of studies on “Wild-Urban-Interface (WUI) fire” and “Battery fire” published in the Fire Technology journal has increased; however, “Firefighter organization” related research papers are being actively published in the Fire Science and Engineering journal. A quantitative analysis of the studies on fire incidents can provide significant information on developing new policies essential to reducing fire damage.