Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Dec 23;16(1):29. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16010029.
On the tenth anniversary of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, investigating the evolution of disaster science is worthwhile and can be used to improve the future execution of disaster risk management. Based on more than 55,786 articles on the relative topic of "Disaster" derived from the Web of Science Core Collection from 1999⁻2017, this study employs CiteSpace and Google Earth to identify and visualize the spatial distribution of publications, bursts of keywords and categories, highly cited references, and interdisciplinary levels and then identify the emerging trends of disaster research over the past 20 years. The results show that the earthquake indeed jumpstarted a massive wave of disaster research around the world and increased international cooperation over the last decade. However, in terms of both the quantity and quality of publications in disaster research fields, China is lagging behind the U.S. and European countries. Moreover, although designing disaster prevention and mitigation strategies is a new popular field of disaster science, geological environment changes and geologic hazards triggered by earthquakes are more popular research topics than disaster emergency and recovery. In addition, the transdisciplinary level of disaster science increased after the earthquake. This interdisciplinary characteristic of disaster science gradually increased in popularity, which demonstrates that people can learn from catastrophes. These emerging trends could serve as a scientific basis to clearly understand disaster science progress over the last 20 years and provide a reference for rapidly identifying frontier issues in disaster science.
在 2008 年汶川地震十周年之际，对灾害科学的发展演变进行调查研究是很有意义的，可以为未来的灾害风险管理提供借鉴。本研究基于 1999 年至 2017 年从 Web of Science 核心合集数据库中检索出的 55786 篇关于“灾害”主题的相关文章，利用 Citespace 和 Google Earth 对出版物的空间分布、关键词和类目爆发、高被引文献和跨学科程度进行识别和可视化，进而确定过去 20 年灾害研究的新兴趋势。结果表明，地震确实引发了全球范围内灾害研究的热潮，且过去十年间国际合作有所增加。然而，无论在灾害研究领域的出版物数量还是质量方面，中国都落后于美国和欧洲国家。此外，尽管制定防灾减灾策略是灾害科学的一个新的热门领域，但地震引发的地质环境变化和地质灾害比灾害应急和恢复更受关注。再者，地震后灾害科学的跨学科水平有所提高。灾害科学的这种跨学科特征逐渐普及，这表明人们可以从灾难中吸取教训。这些新兴趋势可以作为科学依据，帮助我们清晰地了解过去 20 年灾害科学的发展进程，并为快速识别灾害科学的前沿问题提供参考。
