Department of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, No. 7166 Baotong West Street, Weifang, Shandong, 261053, China.
Department of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, No. 157, Health Road, Nangang District, 150081, Harbin, China.
Environ Health Prev Med. 2021 May 28;26(1):60. doi: 10.1186/s12199-021-00981-x.
The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) severely damaged and endangered people's lives at the end of 2019. Risk communication plays an important role in the response to it successfully, which has been appreciated by the World Health Organization. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of risk communication research is necessary, which can understand current research hotspots and reveal new trends.
In this study, we collected 1134 international articles from the Web of Science database and 3983 Chinese articles from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. Bibliometric and mapping knowledge domain analysis methods were used for temporal distribution analysis, cooperation network analysis, co-word network analysis, and burst detection analysis.
The first article in this field was published by western scholars earlier, while the first Chinese article in 2002. Research institutions mainly come from universities. The USA plays a key role in this field. Chinese scholars had a closer cooperation network, but there was less cooperation among domestic institutions. Risk perception, trust, risk management, and risk information had always been the research hotspots in this academic. Trust, sentiment research, and public risk events were essential directions for the future. There are 25 burst words for international articles, while 11 burst words for Chinese articles from 2000 to 2020.
In summary, both domestic and international researchers are concerned about risk communication, risk perception, trust, and risk information. International research on risk communication is systematic and comprehensive relatively. However, Chinese scholars take severe acute respiratory syndrome as the research background and reviewing foreign knowledge as the research starting point. With the purpose of practical and applied research based on a public emergency, the risk communication research lacks continuity in Chinese academy in the past years.
2019 年底，冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的爆发严重破坏和危及人们的生命。风险沟通在成功应对疫情方面发挥着重要作用，这一点得到了世界卫生组织的赞赏。因此，有必要对风险沟通研究进行全面分析，以了解当前的研究热点并揭示新的趋势。
本研究从 Web of Science 数据库中收集了 1134 篇国际文章，从中国国家知识基础设施数据库中收集了 3983 篇中文文章。采用文献计量学和绘图知识领域分析方法进行时间分布分析、合作网络分析、共词网络分析和突发检测分析。
该领域的第一篇文章由西方学者较早发表，而第一篇中文文章则发表于 2002 年。研究机构主要来自大学。美国在该领域发挥着关键作用。中国学者的合作网络更为密切，但国内机构之间的合作较少。风险感知、信任、风险管理和风险信息一直是该学术领域的研究热点。信任、情绪研究和公共风险事件是未来的重要方向。国际文章有 25 个突发词，而 2000 年至 2020 年的中文文章有 11 个突发词。
总之，国内外研究人员都关注风险沟通、风险感知、信任和风险信息。国际上对风险沟通的研究相对系统全面。然而，中国学者以严重急性呼吸系统综合征为研究背景，以综述国外知识为研究起点。基于公共突发事件的实际应用研究，近年来中国学术界的风险沟通研究缺乏连续性。
