Retrospective of thematic trends in scientific publications on environmental safety

Abstract

The article provides a retrospective analysis of the research in the field of environmental safety, including the correlation of the identified thematic stages with the historical development of environmental policy. The set goals are achieved by assessing the distribution of the publications volume on environmental safety by years and periods as well as cluster analysis of scientific terms in this topic. The work used methods of bibliometric analysis of metadata from 49 thousand documents from the Dimensions platform, published between 1933 and 2024. Vosviewer.Introduction and Scimago Graphica software tools were used to visualize the data.