HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS: EXPLORING THE INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE OF A RESEARCH FIELD

Patriarca Riccardo, Ramos Marilia, Nicola Paltrinieri, Salvatore Massaiu, Francesco Costantino, Giulio Di Gravio, Ronald Laurids Boring
2020 Reliability Engineering & System Safety  
Humans play a crucial role in modern socio-technical systems. Rooted in reliability engineering, the discipline of Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) has been broadly applied in a variety of domains in order to understand, manage and prevent the potential for human errors. This paper investigates the existing literature pertaining to HRA and aims to provide clarity in the research field by synthesizing the literature in a systematic way through systematic bibliometric analyses. The multi-method
more » ... proach followed in this research combines factor analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, and bibliometric mapping to identify main HRA research areas. This document reviews over 1200 contributions, with the ultimate goal of identifying current research streams and outlining the potential for future research via a large-scale analysis of contributions indexed in Scopus database.
doi:10.1016/j.ress.2020.107102 fatcat:hr2bcrcdibehpcisrll354lqtu