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Table 2 References output indicators and citation impact related to stage 1 and Fig. 2

From: Reducing maritime accidents in ships by tackling human error: a bibliometric review and research agenda

Cluster

Cluster label

No. of articles

Top 5 most cited articles*

Average citation (based on top 10 articles in each cluster)

A (Red)

Analysis of human and organisational factors in shipping accidents

73

Reason (1990), Soares and Teixeira (2001), Hetherington et al. (2006), Trucco et al. (2008) and Chauvin et al. (2013)

31.8

B (Green)

Structural and engineering designs

54

Minorsky (1959), Simonsen (1997), Terndrup Pedersen and Zhang (1998), Wang et al. (2002) and Pedersen (2010)

22.3

C (Blue)

Causes and analysis of collisions/ grounding accidents

47

Fowler and Sørgård (2000), Kujala et al. (2009), Montewka et al. (2010), Goerlandt and Kujala (2011) and Li et al. (2012)

30.8

D (Orange)

Risk and probabilistic modelling

17

Montewka et al. (2014a), Goerlandt and Montewka (2015a), Goerlandt and Montewka (2015b), Kum and Sahin (2015) and Banda et al. (2015)

21.6

  1. *Total citation impact of 191 articles