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Facility Location and Emergency Management

Facility Location and Emergency Management is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on humanitarian logistics and disaster relief operations management, covering topics such as supply chain management, facility location, emergency logistics planning, optimization models, stochastic programming, reliability models, coordination in relief chains, and healthcare facility location. The research aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of logistics and operations in responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

  • Humanitarian Logistics
  • Disaster Relief
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Facility Location
  • Emergency Logistics Planning
  • Optimization Models
  • Stochastic Programming
  • Reliability Models
  • Coordination
  • Healthcare Facility Location
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Facility Location and Emergency Management

Which countries lead Facility Location and Emergency Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (787 and 358 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 787 works
  2. 2 United States 358 works
  3. 3 India 151 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 143 works
  5. 5 Iran 134 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 90 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 80 works
  8. 8 Canada 74 works
  9. 9 Germany 71 works
  10. 10 Japan 65 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.

China: 40.3%United States: 18.3%India: 7.7%Türkiye: 7.3%6 others listed: 26.4%40%largest
China787 · 40.3%United States358 · 18.3%India151 · 7.7%Türkiye143 · 7.3%6 others listed515 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Facility Location and Emergency Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Facility Location and Emergency Management research, followed by Sichuan University and University of Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 24 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 21 works
  3. 3 University of TehranIran 20 works
  4. 4 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 19 works
  5. 5 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 13 works
  6. 6 Tongji UniversityChina 13 works
  7. 7 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 12 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 11 works
  9. 9 Southeast UniversityChina 11 works
  10. 10 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Facility Location and Emergency Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Facility Location and Emergency Management include Seyedali Mirjalili, Francisco Herrera and Philip S. Yu.

  1. 1 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  2. 2 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  3. 3 Philip S. Yu United States 141k 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 Facility Location and Emergency Management?

The most cited paper in Facility Location and Emergency Management is "Qualitative data analysis (2nd ed)" (Janice M. Morse, 1996), with 5,607 citations. Next come "THE MAXIMAL COVERING LOCATION PROBLEM" (2,014) and "Facility location and supply chain management – A review" (1,937).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Qualitative data analysis (2nd ed) Janice M. Morse · Journal of Psychosomatic Research Sep 1996 5,607
2 THE MAXIMAL COVERING LOCATION PROBLEM Richard L. Church, CHARLES R. VELLE · Papers of the Regional Science Association Open access 1974 2,014
3 Facility location and supply chain management – A review Teresa Melo, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha‐da‐Gama · European Journal of Operational Research 17 May 2008 1,937
4 On the shape of a set of points in the plane Herbert Edelsbrunner, David G. Kirkpatrick, Raimund Seidel · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Jul 1983 1,886
5 The Location of Emergency Service Facilities Constantine Toregas, Ralph W. Swain, Charles ReVelle et al. · Operations Research Oct 1971 1,856
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Facility Location and Emergency Management research done?

The largest centres of Facility Location and Emergency Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran), Shanghai (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tehran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 140 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 71 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 70 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 49 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 47 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 43 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 40 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 39 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 27 works
  10. 10 ChongqingChina 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TehranIR · 71.4 works4.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Facility Location and Emergency Management on the map

Where is the best place to study Facility Location and Emergency Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sichuan University and University of Tehran 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 19.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Sichuan UniversityUniversity of TehranIslamic Azad Univers…
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 80.733.5%6.1×13 +85.4%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 71.223.6%3.8×22 +93.7%
3University of TehranIran 64.720.5%14.1×20 -45.5%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 52.912.4%5.7×24 -25.2%
5Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 50.112.4%12.5×19 -10.8%
6Tongji UniversityChina 46.217.1%3.4×13 +98.0%
7Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 46.217.8%6.5×12 +64.7%
8Shanghai UniversityChina 42.414.3%5.5×10 +70.5%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 40.725.9%2.3×9 +172.4%
10Beihang UniversityChina 37.017.2%3.5×10 +22.4%

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 Facility Location and Emergency Management, country by country

Is Facility Location and Emergency Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Facility Location and Emergency 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 Facility Location and Emergency Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0098% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Facility Location and Emergency Management0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Facility Location and Emergency 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%Facility Location and Emergency Management10.1% 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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