A bibliometric analysis on oil and gas pipeline failure consequence analysis

Maintenance and repair of the deteriorating infrastructure has been got into significant consideration amongst stakeholders and researchers in recent years. In this regard, oil and gas pipelines are one of the most critical buried infrastructures all over the world. This study presents a bibliometric literature review of oil and gas pipeline failure consequences considering 20 years of scientific documents into account for evaluating the research pattern. For this, the measures including, number of related publications over the years and in an area-wise pattern, top-cited documents, citation evaluation of journals and researchers, map of co-occurrence examination of authors’ keywords, contribution per country, and cluster assessment have been analysed in the bibliometric plotting of the mentioned study area. Based on the researchers’ keywords and their cluster analysis, future research directions can be uncovered.