The Past, Present, and Future of Private Security Officers: A Bibliometric Analysis
The Past, Present, and Future of Private Security Officers: A Bibliometric Analysis

Summary/Abstract: This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the past, present and future of private security officers.In this context, publications on ‘private security officers’ in the Web of Science (WoS) database were analyzed through bibliometricanalysis. The data was retrieved from WoS on October 01, 2024. R program was used for bibliometric analysis because it hasa content with more findings and a detailed representation. Private security officers, this concept has been included in the WoSdatabase since the 2000s. There was a significant increase between 2011 and 2016, with the highest number of publicationsin 2016. Over 24 years, an average of 6.91 articles were published, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.91%. Themost common keywords are ‘private security’, ‘policing’ and ‘private security guards’. The most cited article is Nandini Gooptu’s2013 article. Trending topics, ‘private security’, ‘security guards’ and ‘security officers’ are the top trending topics between 2006and 2024. Different keywords are prominent in certain years. Author Collaborations: There are 11 different collaboration sets.The most collaborated author is ‘Mahesh K. Nalla’. Country collaborations: The most collaborated country in the field of privatesecurity is the USA. The most connections are between the USA and Russia.

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