Visualizing the intellectual landscape and evolution of transportation system resilience : a bibliometric analysis in CiteSpace

Abstract

As an emerging concept of a system's ability to resist disasters, transportation system resilience (TSR) has attracted the attention of scholars. In this study, a bibliometric analysis of 303 academic publications from the Web of Science related to TSR is presented to portray the intellectual landscape by visualizing the evolution of the collaboration network, the co-citation network, and keywords co-occurrence. The results showed that the number of publications in the field of TSR exploded after 2014 and attracted multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary attention from all over the world. Collaborative efforts among authors in this field tend to confine in small groups, and a large-scale collaborative network has yet to be established. This study also identifies the influential journals, institutions, scholars, and literature and summarizes the hot research topics and future research directions. In addition, it offers valuable references for researchers interested in TSR, and put forward recommendations on the emphasis and orientations of future studies.