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Disaster Response and Management

Disaster Response and Management is a research topic within Emergency Medical Services. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on disaster response, public health preparedness, and the ethical considerations surrounding resource allocation, triage, and healthcare worker readiness. It covers a wide range of topics including infectious diseases, mass casualties, hospital preparedness, and the impact of natural disasters on public health. The papers also discuss the challenges and strategies for managing surge capacity, as well as the ethical dilemmas faced during pandemics and other public health emergencies.

  • Disaster Response
  • Public Health
  • Triage
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Mass Casualties
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Hospital Preparedness
  • Resource Allocation
  • Healthcare Workers
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Disaster Response and Management

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Disaster Response and Management research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (2.5k and 616 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.5k works
  2. 2 Türkiye 616 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 571 works
  4. 4 Japan 408 works
  5. 5 China 403 works
  6. 6 India 393 works
  7. 7 Australia 370 works
  8. 8 Iran 324 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 316 works
  10. 10 Canada 301 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.

United States: 40.4%Türkiye: 9.9%United Kingdom: 9.2%Japan: 6.6%6 others listed: 33.9%40%largest
United States2,508 · 40.4%Türkiye616 · 9.9%United Kingdom571 · 9.2%Japan408 · 6.6%6 others listed2,106 · 33.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Disaster Response and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Disaster Response and Management research, followed by United States Department of Defense and World Health Organization.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 83 works
  2. 2 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 61 works
  3. 3 World Health OrganizationSwitzerland 55 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 48 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 41 works
  8. 8 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 39 works
  9. 9 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 32 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Disaster Response and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Disaster Response and Management include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  10. 10 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Disaster Response and Management?

The most cited paper in Disaster Response and Management is "Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness" (Fran H. Norris, Susan P. Stevens, Betty J. Pfefferbaum et al., 2007), with 5,238 citations. Next come "Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19" (3,284) and "60,000 Disaster Victims Speak: Part I. An Empirical Review of the Empirical Literature, 1981–2001" (3,147).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness Fran H. Norris, Susan P. Stevens, Betty J. Pfefferbaum et al. · American Journal of Community Psychology 21 Dec 2007 5,238
2 Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 Ezekiel Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross E. G. Upshur et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 23 Mar 2020 3,284
3 60,000 Disaster Victims Speak: Part I. An Empirical Review of the Empirical Literature, 1981–2001 Fran H. Norris, Matthew J. Friedman, Patricia Watson et al. · Psychiatry Sep 2002 3,147
4 Resilience definitions, theory, and challenges: interdisciplinary perspectives Steven Mark Southwick, George A. Bonanno, Ann S. Masten et al. · European Journal of Psychotraumatology Open access Oct 2014 2,915
5 Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities Eve Tuck · Harvard Educational Review Sep 2009 2,785
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Where is Disaster Response and Management research done?

The largest centres of Disaster Response and Management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), Tehran (Iran) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 196 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 135 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 127 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 117 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 112 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 112 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 94 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 89 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 85 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London30.8 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Disaster Response and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Disaster Response and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gothenburg, Karolinska Institutet and Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” 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.

0%20%40%mean 19.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Gothen…Karolinska InstitutetUniversità degli Stu…UNSW Sydney
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of GothenburgSweden 70.133.1%4.0×16 +20.1%
2Karolinska InstitutetSweden 64.822.7%4.5×22 +16.3%
3Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”Italy 62.318.9%24.5×18 +185.3%
4UNSW SydneyAustralia 61.315.7%3.9×30 +146.6%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 61.015.0%3.0×83 -20.4%
6London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 58.723.3%8.5×12 -17.7%
7Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 56.710.2%8.6×41 +217.2%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 56.119.2%2.6×27 +8.9%
9Griffith UniversityAustralia 55.922.6%4.1×15 +3.5%
10The University of MelbourneAustralia 55.616.3%2.7×25 +20.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Disaster Response and Management, country by country

Is Disaster Response and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Disaster Response and Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Disaster Response and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Disaster Response and Management0.039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Disaster Response and Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Disaster Response and Management10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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