Geographies and Scientometrics of Research on Natural Hazards
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Geosciences 2018, 8(10), 382; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8100382
Received: 14 September 2018 / Revised: 8 October 2018 / Accepted: 16 October 2018 / Published: 18 October 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inaugural Section Special Issue: Key Topics and Future Perspectives in Natural Hazards Research)
This contribution aims to reveal patterns of research on natural hazards worldwide, based on the analysis of the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database. A set of 588,424 research items published between 1900 and 2017 is analyzed, covering different types of natural hazards. Two categories of natural hazards are distinguished in this study: (i) geological/geomorphic (earthquakes, slope movements, erosion, volcanic activity, and others); and (ii) climatic/hydro-meteorological (floods, storms, drought, hurricane, and others). General trends, the geographical focus, and the involvement and cooperation between individual countries are revealed, pointing out certain patterns (e.g., hotspots of research) and trends (e.g., changing publishing paradigm). Further, a global overview of research on natural hazards is confronted with disastrous events, fatalities, and losses of MunichRE and SwissRE global databases of natural disasters.
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Keywords:
natural hazards; disaster; scientometrics; bibliometrics; citation analysis; NatCatSERVICE; Sigma Explorer
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Chicago/Turabian StyleEmmer, Adam. 2018. "Geographies and Scientometrics of Research on Natural Hazards" Geosciences 8, no. 10: 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8100382
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