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. 30.9% 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%
- 3.3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 30.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +38% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Facility Location and Emergency Management research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (646 and 289 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 646 works
- 2 United States 289 works
- 3 Iran 122 works
- 4 Türkiye 121 works
- 5 India 120 works
- 6 Indonesia 76 works
- 7 United Kingdom 67 works
- 8 Canada 62 works
- 9 Germany 55 works
- 10 France 51 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.
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Which institutions lead Facility Location and Emergency Management research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Sichuan University publishes the most Facility Location and Emergency Management research, followed by University of Tehran and Beijing Jiaotong University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Sichuan UniversityChina 19 works
- 2 University of TehranIran 18 works
- 3 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 17 works
- 4 Tongji UniversityChina 11 works
- 5 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 10 works
- 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 10 works
- 7 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 9 works
- 8 Southeast UniversityChina 9 works
- 9 Shanghai UniversityChina 9 works
- 10 Beihang UniversityChina 9 works
Who are the leading researchers in Facility Location and Emergency Management?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Facility Location and Emergency Management include Gilbert Laporte.
- 1 Gilbert Laporte Canada 2.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Facility Location and Emergency Management research done?
The largest centres of Facility Location and Emergency Management research in 2022–2025 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 and Istanbul.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- TehranIR · 65.7 works5.2×
- IstanbulTR · 38.3 works3.5×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Facility Location and Emergency Management than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Facility Location and Emergency Management?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Tehran, Beijing Jiaotong University and Hong Kong Polytechnic 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.
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 TehranIran | 86.6 | 52.3% | 13.5× | 18 | +141.4% |
| 2 | Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina | 61.0 | 31.1% | 11.5× | 16 | +18.7% |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 56.0 | 55.9% | 5.0× | 10 | +0.9% |
| 4 | Sichuan UniversityChina | 53.7 | 40.0% | 4.9× | 19 | +51.5% |
| 5 | Iran University of Science and TechnologyIran | 48.2 | 33.4% | 12.6× | 8 | +42.2% |
| 6 | University of ŽilinaSlovakia | 43.4 | 6.5% | 31.4× | 8 | +378.0% |
| 7 | Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia | 32.7 | 11.6% | 6.8× | 8 | +301.5% |
| 8 | Shanghai UniversityChina | 32.1 | 19.1% | 5.2× | 9 | +179.6% |
| 9 | Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina | 30.8 | 30.2% | 5.8× | 10 | -81.7% |
| 10 | Wuhan University of TechnologyChina | 30.6 | 34.7% | 5.0× | 10 | -21.8% |
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 Facility Location and Emergency Management research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 38% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Facility Location and Emergency Management.
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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.