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Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies

Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies is a research topic within Transportation. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on disaster recovery, urban reconstruction planning, and the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis on housing, communities, and coastal vegetation. It also explores topics related to community resilience, geological nomenclature, biotechnology education, and STEM research in the context of disaster-affected areas.

  • Disaster Recovery
  • Urban Reconstruction
  • Housing Recovery
  • Community Resilience
  • Earthquake Impact
  • Coastal Vegetation
  • Tsunami Evacuation
  • Geological Nomenclature
  • Biotechnology Education
  • STEM Research
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies

Which countries lead Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Japan publish the most (592 and 556 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 592 works
  2. 2 Japan 556 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 125 works
  4. 4 China 68 works
  5. 5 France 58 works
  6. 6 Australia 51 works
  7. 7 India 49 works
  8. 8 Switzerland 45 works
  9. 9 Germany 45 works
  10. 10 Canada 44 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: 36.2%Japan: 34.0%United Kingdom: 7.6%China: 4.1%6 others listed: 17.9%36%largest
United States592 · 36.2%Japan556 · 34.0%United Kingdom125 · 7.6%China68 · 4.1%6 others listed293 · 17.9%

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

Which institutions lead Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland) publishes the most Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies research, followed by Health & Medical Publishing Group and The University of Tokyo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland)Switzerland 33 works
  2. 2 Health & Medical Publishing GroupSouth Africa 22 works
  3. 3 The University of TokyoJapan 22 works
  4. 4 Tohoku UniversityJapan 20 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 18 works
  6. 6 Kyoto UniversityJapan 14 works
  7. 7 National Institute of Child HealthHungary 13 works
  8. 8 Health AffairsUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Kyushu UniversityJapan 12 works
  10. 10 Chiba UniversityJapan 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies include George Davey Smith, Richard M. Ryan and Richard A. Gibbs.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k 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 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies?

The most cited paper in Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies is "Geochim. cosmochim. acta" (Annette M. Olivarez, Robert M. Owen, 1990), with 1,144 citations. Next come "OBESE, A NEW MUTATION IN THE HOUSE MOUSE*" (1,080) and "AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS" (726).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geochim. cosmochim. acta Annette M. Olivarez, Robert M. Owen · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Open access Jun 1990 1,144
2 OBESE, A NEW MUTATION IN THE HOUSE MOUSE* Ann M. Ingalls, Margaret M. Dickie, George D. Snell · Journal of Heredity Dec 1950 1,080
3 AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS Martin Bland · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks Book chapter Aug 2000 726
4 Evidence for Great Holocene Earthquakes Along the Outer Coast of Washington State Brian F. Atwater · Science 22 May 1987 688
5 Activities, Interests and Opinions William D. Wells, Douglas J. Tigert · Journal of Advertising Research Sep 1983 564
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Where is Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies research done?

The largest centres of Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Kyoto (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cape Town, Basel and Sendai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 159 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 44 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  4. 4 KyotoJapan 34 works
  5. 5 BaselSwitzerland 34 works
  6. 6 OsakaJapan 29 works
  7. 7 SendaiJapan 29 works
  8. 8 TsukubaJapan 26 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 25 works
  10. 10 Cape TownSouth Africa 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Cape TownZA · 22.6 works28×
  2. BaselCH · 33.7 works28×
  3. SendaiJP · 28.8 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Tokyo, Tohoku University and Kyoto University 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 16.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hiroshima UniversityKyoto UniversityTohoku UniversityThe University of To…
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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
1The University of TokyoJapan 76.618.6%10.1×22 -11.7%
2Tohoku UniversityJapan 75.020.6%17.7×20 -37.0%
3Kyoto UniversityJapan 61.223.5%10.8×14 -44.0%
4Hiroshima UniversityJapan 57.531.2%14.2×9 +51.5%
5Chiba UniversityJapan 55.520.3%26.4×12 +95.9%
6Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan 40.412.0%16.3×10 +1.3%
7Hokkaido UniversityJapan 35.913.1%14.3×11 +10.3%
8Kyushu UniversityJapan 22.29.5%12.3×12 -46.2%
9Nihon UniversityJapan 13.06.8%33.4×11 -32.1%
10Kindai UniversityJapan 10.86.9%30.5×9 +687.9%

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 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies, country by country

Is Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0069% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies 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%Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies10.3% 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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