A bibliometric analysis of maritime security policy: Research trends and future agenda

Abstract

Marine potential does not only store economic potential, but also preserves other potentials from ecological, geopolitical, geostrategic to the potential for international conflicts that make security at sea very essential for all countries in the world. This article aims to analyze maritime security or maritime security with a bibliometric approach using the Scopus database. The main search keyword used was “Maritime Security” employing the VOSviewer application for evaluating several clusters. Meanwhile, the NVivo12 application was used as a tool for analyzing wordcloud. In a nutshell, the highest year of research related to maritime security occurred in 2019 and America became the country which most often wrote literature on maritime security. In addition, most research trends are investigating maritime security with a focus on countries’ strategies to anticipate risks and threats that arise in the maritime sector by conducting cluster mapping. To sum up, this article conclusively informs that maritime security requires the international definition for future studies.

Keywords

• Maritime security
• Bibliometric analysis
• Scopus
• VOSviewer
• NVivo