中科大火灾科学国家重点实验室的学术画像

With more than 30 years of research and development in fire science, The State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) become one of the most well-known fire research centers in the world. The overall analysis of the SKLFS research performance is significant to monitor the development of the laboratory, and to promote the future research plan for the SKLFS and also the Chinese fire science development. There are 3 449 publications (from 1995 to 2021) published by SKLFS in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCI Expanded, CPCI S, SSCI, ESCI, etc.), and the overall output characteristics, scientific collaboration, research topics, and high-impact literature were analyzed in the data analysis. The publication outputs of the SKLFS have increased significantly in the past 30 years, which has shown the high-speed development of the fire center. The areas of the SKLFS papers are mainly published in engineering materials journals. The laboratory has established extensive collaboration relations with the international academic community and also brings a wide impact around the world. Research topics of the laboratory are widely distributed in the fire area, and flame retardant materials, fire experiment and simulation (pool fire, tunnel fire, etc.), fire dynamics, lithium battery fire safety, and personnel evacuation are core research topics domains in the Lab. Among these topics, flame retardant materials are the largest topic group and the research on lithium battery fire is an emerging topic and also has a high citation impact. At the literature level, the highly cited papers also focus on flame retardant materials and lithium batteries research. The literature citation network of fire laboratory papers forms the knowledge and intellectual structure of the laboratory, including reference groups of flame retardant materials, pool fire, tunnel fire, personnel evacuation, and lithium battery fire safety.