Knowledge domain and hotspot trends in coal and gas outburst: a scientometric review based on CiteSpace analysis

Coal and gas outburst is one of the main dynamic disasters in coal mine production. In order to deeply understand the overall research progress in the field of coal and gas outburst, the Web of Science (WOS) database is used as the sample source, and the bibliometric analysis of the literature in the field of coal and gas outburst from 2000 to 2021 is carried out by CiteSpace software. The knowledge maps of the publication quantity, country, institution, and keyword cluster are drawn. The results show that the time distribution has gone through three stages of germination period, development period, and growth period. In terms of the cooperation network, China, Australia, and the USA are the main core research countries, while China University of Mining and Technology, Chongqing University, and Henan Polytechnic University are the main core research institutions, and the main core journals are IGCG, IGRMM, and Fuel. By drawing the knowledge map of keywords timeline, the evolution law of keywords in the field of coal and gas outburst with time is obtained. Taking keywords as the object, cluster labels with gas outburst, gas extraction, gas control, and pore structure as the core are presented. On this basis, from a new perspective, this paper outlines the “scientific research landscape map” in the field of coal and gas outburst, in order to provide a scientific reference for coal and gas outburst research.