Kuipers Sanneke, van der Wilt Annemarie, Wolbers Jeroen
Editor-in-Chief, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global Affairs The Hague The Netherlands.
Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global Affairs The Hague The Netherlands.
Risk Hazards Crisis Public Policy. 2022 Dec;13(4):302-321. doi: 10.1002/rhc3.12262. Epub 2022 Dec 13.
Iconic events have traditionally instigated progression in the fields of crisis and disaster science. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressing question is how this global health emergency impacted the research agendas of our field. We reviewed contributions in ten important crisis and disaster journals in the two and a half years following the COVID-19 outbreak from 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2022. Specifically, we conducted a bibliometric review using thematic mapping analysis to distill the major themes covered by the emerging COVID-19 literature within crisis and disaster science ( = 239 articles). Our results indicate that several well-known topics are applied to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as risk, crisis communication, governance, resilience and vulnerability. The pandemic also gave rise to new topics, such as citizen behavior, state power, and the business and mental health impact of crisis measures. Several studies are already looking ahead by identifying lessons for preparedness and mitigation of future pandemics. By taking stock of the surge of COVID-19 studies while this academic literature is still taking shape, this review sets the stage for future contributions to the crisis and disaster literatures. It provides valuable lessons for what topics are studied and what themes need more attention. The COVID-19 pandemic is destined to become an iconic event for our literature that not only strengthens and deepens existing debates, but also clearly offers the opportunity to draw in new perspectives and broaden the horizon of crisis and disaster science.
标志性事件传统上推动了危机与灾害科学领域的发展。在新冠疫情之后，紧迫的问题是这场全球卫生紧急事件如何影响了我们这个领域的研究议程。我们回顾了2020年1月1日至2022年6月30日新冠疫情爆发后的两年半时间里，十份重要危机与灾害期刊上的相关投稿。具体而言，我们使用主题映射分析进行了文献计量学综述，以提炼危机与灾害科学领域中新兴的新冠疫情相关文献所涵盖的主要主题（共239篇文章）。我们的研究结果表明，几个知名主题被应用于新冠疫情，如风险、危机沟通、治理、恢复力和脆弱性。疫情还催生了新的主题，如公民行为、国家权力以及危机应对措施对商业和心理健康的影响。已有几项研究通过总结应对未来大流行的防范和缓解经验教训，展望未来。在这一学术文献仍在形成之际，通过评估新冠疫情研究的激增情况，本综述为未来对危机与灾害文献的贡献奠定了基础。它为研究哪些主题以及哪些主题需要更多关注提供了宝贵的经验教训。新冠疫情注定会成为我们文献中的一个标志性事件，它不仅强化和深化了现有的辩论，还显然提供了引入新视角和拓宽危机与灾害科学视野的机会。
