Bibliometric analysis of achievements on the dam safety monitoring in SCI

In this work, bibliometric analysis was applied to evaluate global scientific production and developing trend of the dam safety monitoring research through Science Citation Index (SCI) papers with online version published as following aspects: publication outputs, subject categories, countries, institutes, citations, authorship and co-authorship, author key words and co-words analysis. Global literature of the dam safety monitoring research has increased rapidly over the past years and has boosted in recent years. The quantity and quality of papers in P.R. China are in a leading position. There is a very important new finding from the research focus that tailings dam has been adequately studied. With the further development of the dam safety monitoring research, it is presumed that scientists might concentrate mainly on safety prediction and health monitoring instead of simple safety monitoring.