Abstract
Human factors remains a recent field of research that is dynamic and changing with technology and social life. This paper aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of human factors research. We explore research on Human Factors and Ergonomics through SSCI. We find that highly cited papers is a negligible portion of the total. We map the countries and the most relevant approaches as well as detailing the new theoretical perspectives to human factors theory. The analysis conducted uses multivariate statistical analysis techniques in addition to the co-citation matrix to shed light on these issues. The results provide a global perspective of the field, identifying the works that have had the greatest impact, the intellectual interconnections among published papers, and the main research traditions or themes that explored in human factors. Structural and longitudinal analyses reveal changes in the intellectual structure of the field over time.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71371025).
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Wang, J., Shan, W. (2018). Bibliometric Analysis of Human Factors Research: Intellectual Structure and Evolution. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60011-6_4
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