Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.2478/otmcj-2021-0027
Construction health and safety: A topic landscape study
Xiaorui Cao
; Data Science institute, Shandong University, China
Ruodan Lu
; Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK
Liang Guo
; Data Science institute, Shandong University, China
Jianya Liu
; Data Science institute, Shandong University, China
Abstract
We aim to draw in-depth insights into the current
literature in construction health and safety and provide
perspectives for future research efforts. The existing literature
on construction health and safety is not only diverse
and rich in sight, but also complex and fragmented in
structure. It is essential for the construction industry and
research community to understand the overall development
and existing challenges of construction health
and safety to adapt to future new code of practice and
challenges in this field. We mapped the topic landscape
followed by identifying the salient development trajectories
of this research area over time. We used the topic
modeling algorithm to extract 10 distinct topics from 662
abstracts (filtered from a total of 895) of articles published
between 1991 and 2020. In addition, we provided the most
cited references and the most popular journal per topic
as well. The results from a time series analysis suggested
that the construction health and safety would maintain
its popularity in the next 5 years. Research efforts would
be devoted to the topics including “Physical health and
disease”, “Migrant and race”, “Vocational ability and
training”, and “Smart devices.” Among these topics,
“Smart devices” would be the most promising one.
Keywords
construction health and safety; occupational health; topic landscape; content analysis; time series analysis
Hrčak ID:
266734
URI
Publication date:
21.3.2021.
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