Disaster Management and Resilience
Disaster Management and Resilience is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 30.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on community resilience to natural disasters, encompassing topics such as risk perception, social vulnerability, emergency management, climate change adaptation, and the role of social capital in disaster preparedness and response.
- Resilience
- Disaster
- Community
- Risk
- Vulnerability
- Emergency Management
- Social Capital
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Hazard Mitigation
- Crisis Response
- Research works
- 37k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 11k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 30.3% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +55% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Disaster Management and Resilience research?
By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.1k and 870 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 2.1k works
- 2 China 870 works
- 3 Indonesia 816 works
- 4 United Kingdom 504 works
- 5 Türkiye 485 works
- 6 Australia 447 works
- 7 Japan 434 works
- 8 India 431 works
- 9 Canada 284 works
- 10 Germany 235 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Disaster Management and Resilience research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Universitas Gadjah Mada publishes the most Disaster Management and Resilience research, followed by Universitas Syiah Kuala and Texas A&M University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 42 works
- 2 Universitas Syiah KualaIndonesia 38 works
- 3 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 34 works
- 4 The University of MelbourneAustralia 33 works
- 5 Kyoto UniversityJapan 32 works
- 6 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 32 works
- 7 The University of SydneyAustralia 31 works
- 8 Massey UniversityNew Zealand 31 works
- 9 University of AucklandNew Zealand 30 works
- 10 Tohoku UniversityJapan 30 works
Who are the leading researchers in Disaster Management and Resilience?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Disaster Management and Resilience include W. Neil Adger and Paul Slovic.
- 1 W. Neil Adger United Kingdom 3.7k citations
- 2 Paul Slovic United States 3.5k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Disaster Management and Resilience research done?
The largest centres of Disaster Management and Resilience research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Palmerston North.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 Beijing China 214 works
- 2 London United Kingdom 131 works
- 3 Tokyo Japan 117 works
- 4 Tehran Iran 101 works
- 5 Melbourne Australia 101 works
- 6 Jakarta Indonesia 99 works
- 7 New York United States 94 works
- 8 Washington D.C. United States 87 works
- 9 Yogyakarta Indonesia 85 works
- 10 Dhaka Bangladesh 81 works
Where it is the local speciality
- Palmerston NorthNZ · 31.4 works16×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Disaster Management and Resilience than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Disaster Management and Resilience?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Newcastle Australia, Massey University and Universitas Syiah Kuala score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Newcastle AustraliaAustralia | 69.6 | 35.7% | 9.8× | 21 | +261.0% |
| 2 | Massey UniversityNew Zealand | 66.6 | 35.6% | 17.4× | 31 | +74.0% |
| 3 | Universitas Syiah KualaIndonesia | 63.5 | 20.4% | 8.7× | 38 | +876.1% |
| 4 | Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand | 60.7 | 28.9% | 9.0× | 18 | +177.5% |
| 5 | University at Albany, State University of New YorkUnited States | 59.6 | 34.6% | 9.9× | 12 | +201.8% |
| 6 | University of AucklandNew Zealand | 58.8 | 43.4% | 5.9× | 30 | +76.1% |
| 7 | University of CanterburyNew Zealand | 58.0 | 49.6% | 9.5× | 16 | -2.4% |
| 8 | Keio University Shonan FujisawaJapan | 57.3 | 37.3% | 92.9× | 18 | — |
| 9 | TH Köln - University of Applied SciencesGermany | 56.6 | 42.8% | 15.0× | 8 | +167.0% |
| 10 | University of DhakaBangladesh | 56.2 | 27.7% | 8.8× | 20 | +124.3% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Disaster Management and Resilience research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 55% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Disaster Management and Resilience.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.