Psychological research on safety in extreme conditions: a scientometric analysis of foreign publications

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Context and relevance.</strong> Safety in extreme conditions is of interdisciplinary interest; it has not received sufficient formalization in psychology. The difficulties of developing the topic require understanding the trends of publication activity in the relevant field. <strong>Objective.</strong> To carry out a scientometric analysis of the content of foreign publications on the problem of safety in extreme conditions. <strong>Hypothesis.</strong> Foreign studies of safety in extreme conditions are likely to have a heterogeneous structure and time of registration of subject interests. <strong>Methods and materials.</strong> The study was implemented on the PubMed abstract database based on three groups of queries. The bibliographic maps were processed by the VOSviewer_1.6.20 program. <strong>Results.</strong> The article presents the differentiation of foreign publications on safety in extreme conditions into three groups: interdisciplinary, psychological, and intra-psychological research. The structure of each of these groups and the dynamics of scientific interests are shown. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> On the basis of general scientific publications on safety in extreme conditions, works on the psychology of safety in extreme conditions were first developed, and then on psychological safety in extreme conditions. The formation of the subject area of security research in extreme conditions, its sensitivity to modern social demands, is stated. The issues of psychological safety in the extreme conditions of aging are outlined by the perspective of the development of the problem. The presented results may have limitations caused by the specification of the PubMed bibliographic database used, which is limited to life sciences and biomedicine.</p> <div class="XTranslate" style="all: unset;"> </div> <div class="XTranslate" style="all: unset;"></div>