A Research on Concept of Ship Safety Domain

This study presents the results of the content analysis of articles related to ʺShip Safety Domainʺ. The content and statistical analysis of 44 articles that published in 21 different journals between 1970 and 2016 were conducted. This study includes various data types such as publishing years of articles, obtaining the type of data, the contribution of authors, the contribution of countries, the contribution of the institution, the rank of the journal, keywords of articles and etc. The content analysis aims to provide necessary indicators for readers, followers, and contributors of relevant discipline and a glimpse of lots of articles. The published articles about ship safety domain are discovered by this study so as to contribute lecturers and researchers interested in navigation especially ship domain concept. The results of the research were revealed that Poland and China are the most contributing countries, Dalian Maritime University and The Maritime University of Szczecin are the most contributing institutions and Ning Wang and Rafal Szlapczynski are the most contributing researchers. http://www.transnav.eu the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation Volume 12