Global Research Productions Pertaining to Design for Safety: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on WoS Database

Design for Safety (DFS) is a crucial tool that assists humans in paying closer attention to safety and health project life cycles of buildings other facilities. Analyzing DFS through bibliometric perspective can facilitate the development new theories, promote disciplinary content, reveal direction subject area. This paper presents systematic, holistic, comprehensive overview global literature focused on DFS, summarizing number publications, research hotspots, methods, distribution. Scientific publications are measure academic level scientific strength institutions individuals, this article provides an interdisciplinary from 1 January 1997 31 December 2020, based related Web Science database (WoS-database). The highlights current ideas, trends around world, offering contemporary DFS. By utilizing both keyword clustering co-citation techniques, proposes 4P framework (i.e., purpose, people, procedures, phenomena) better understand achievements achieve complex structure future development. concise description may provide logical mechanism assessing understanding research.