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Landslides and related hazards

Landslides and related hazards is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 60k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment, mapping, and management of landslide hazards, including factors such as rainfall triggering, earthquake-induced landslides, and spatial prediction models using GIS and remote sensing. It also covers topics related to debris flows, risk assessment, and the use of advanced modeling techniques for landslide susceptibility mapping.

  • Landslide
  • Hazard
  • Susceptibility Mapping
  • Rainfall Triggering
  • GIS-based Modeling
  • Risk Assessment
  • Earthquake-induced Landslides
  • Spatial Prediction
  • Debris Flows
  • Remote Sensing
Research works
60k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Landslides and related hazards

Which countries lead Landslides and related hazards research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (7.3k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 7.3k works
  2. 2 United States 1.4k works
  3. 3 India 1.2k works
  4. 4 Italy 644 works
  5. 5 Japan 475 works
  6. 6 France 404 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 370 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 358 works
  9. 9 Canada 315 works
  10. 10 Germany 297 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: 57.2%United States: 11.0%India: 9.4%Italy: 5.1%6 others listed: 17.4%57%largest
China7,273 · 57.2%United States1,395 · 11.0%India1,192 · 9.4%Italy644 · 5.1%6 others listed2,219 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Landslides and related hazards research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Landslides and related hazards research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and Chengdu University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 481 works
  2. 2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 264 works
  3. 3 Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 202 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 177 works
  5. 5 China University of GeosciencesChina 171 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 156 works
  7. 7 Chang'an UniversityChina 146 works
  8. 8 Hohai UniversityChina 146 works
  9. 9 Tongji UniversityChina 134 works
  10. 10 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 132 works

Who are the leading researchers in Landslides and related hazards?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Landslides and related hazards include George Davey Smith, Jun Wang and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  6. 6 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  9. 9 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  10. 10 Jiaguo Yu China 207k 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 Landslides and related hazards?

The most cited paper in Landslides and related hazards is "Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity" (A. L. Westerling, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Daniel R. Cayan et al., 2006), with 5,311 citations. Next come "A bonded-particle model for rock" (5,046) and "The Varnes classification of landslide types, an update" (3,512).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity A. L. Westerling, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Daniel R. Cayan et al. · Science Open access 6 Jul 2006 5,311
2 A bonded-particle model for rock D.O. Potyondy, Peter A. Cundall · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences Dec 2004 5,046
3 The Varnes classification of landslide types, an update Oldrich Hungr, Serge Leroueil, Luciano Picarelli · Landslides 29 Nov 2013 3,512
4 Kinetic theories for granular flow: inelastic particles in Couette flow and slightly inelastic particles in a general flowfield Cliff K. K. Lun, Stuart B. Savage, David J. Jeffrey et al. · Journal of Fluid Mechanics Mar 1984 3,069
5 The shear strength of rock joints in theory and practice Nick R. Barton, Vishnu D. Choubey · Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Dec 1977 2,992
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Landslides and related hazards research done?

The largest centres of Landslides and related hazards research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chengdu (China), Wuhan (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xuzhou, Chengdu and Reston.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.5k works
  2. 2 ChengduChina 615 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 501 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 402 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 341 works
  6. 6 XuzhouChina 267 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 254 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 253 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 213 works
  10. 10 LanzhouChina 164 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XuzhouCN · 266.8 works18×
  2. Chengdu49.4 works18×
  3. RestonUS · 60.5 works16×
  4. FuxinCN · 43.4 works16×
  5. HuainanCN · 66.8 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Landslides and related hazards than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Landslides and related hazards?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and China University of Geosciences score highest, combining citation 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 21.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Central South Univer…Hong Kong University…China University of …China University of …
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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.

Citation 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
1Central South UniversityChina 78.723.5%6.5×177 +53.8%
2Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 78.523.4%6.5×38 +20.2%
3China University of GeosciencesChina 76.621.7%26.4×171 +68.3%
4China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 74.715.7%23.6×264 +36.8%
5Northwest UniversityChina 73.130.8%7.7×32 +35.3%
6Chongqing UniversityChina 71.821.7%6.4×98 +64.2%
7Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 68.021.2%2.9×36 +48.6%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 67.819.2%3.5×112 +27.6%
9Wuhan UniversityChina 67.620.7%4.3×87 +34.4%
10Chang'an UniversityChina 67.515.7%27.5×146 +53.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Landslides and related hazards, country by country

Is Landslides and related hazards research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Landslides and related hazards.

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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 Landslides and related hazards as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.076% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Landslides and related hazards0.068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Landslides and related hazards 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%Landslides and related hazards9.9% 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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