Mapping and Clustering of International Researches on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) Based on Co-Word Analysis of Articles Indexed in Web of Science (WoS) Database

This research is aim to identify the main and the most updated scientific fields and sub-fields of "Critical Infrastructure Protection". Gaining this goal, current situation of this science is identified in the world and its available to have futurology and processology for our nations experts. The other goal of this paper was introducing the most pioneer countries and international researchers in this field.This research is applicable in nature and is done by scientometrics based on co-word analysis method. Authors' reasearches dedicated that no paper with this methodology has been done on the topic of critical infrastructure so far in our country. For gathering raw data we used Web of Science website and results analyzing and clustering maps drawing were done using VOSviewer software. For drawing sub-clusters diagrams, Xmind software was used.Results of this research showed that critical infrastructure protection as a multi-disciplinary science covers a wide area of issues. But the most important issues or topics on which international researches have been focused are topics like "key products and resources", "cyberspace and banking", "cascading effects", "Industrial control systems", "scada", "cyber attacks", "terrorism" and "food and water resources security". The most pioneer countries are USA, Italy and Germany and Messrs. Steven Rinaldi, Ted g. Lewis and Gerald Brown were known as the most cited international authors in critical infrastructure protection field.