A review of emergency response in disasters: present and future perspectives
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A review of emergency response in disasters: present and future perspectives Yi Feng1 · Shaoze Cui2 Received: 4 April 2020 / Accepted: 2 September 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract With the increasing occurrence of disasters, how to respond to disasters has attracted a lot of interest. However, a systematic study of emergency response in disasters (ER) has been ignored. Based on the bibliometric analysis and visualization of 3678 journal articles (1970–2019) related to ER from the Web of Science, the current research situation in the field of ER has been studied. The important research questions and trends in the field of ER have been identified. In this study, the VOSviewer software is used to visually analyze publications about ER. Specifically, the most influential journals and authors, highly cited publications, authoritative research institutions, and co-citation are identified in this study. Moreover, the Ucinet software is applied to analyze the social network of 45 high-frequency keywords and the Citespace software is used to study the keyword citation bursts. The results show that the keywords “optimization” and “demand” are the most popular research interests. Besides, four main research topics on ER are summarized, which are emergency supplies and facility-related research, emergency preparedness and securityrelated research, emergency decision system-related research, and emergency medical rescue and cure-related research. Finally, this study puts forward the research work that should be paid attention to in the future according to different research topics, which can help researchers to understand the ER research progress systematically and focus on emerging research questions. Keywords Emergency response · Bibliometric analysis · Social network analysis · Visual analysis · Co-citation analysis
1 Introduction Disasters are the result of great ecological damage between human beings and nature, which are commonly classified into two types: One is the natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc.) and the other is the man-made disasters (chemical spills, coal mine explosions, terrorist attacks, etc.). According to the report of International Federation * Shaoze Cui [email protected] 1
Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China
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of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), more than 500 disasters occur worldwide every year, causing about 75,000 deaths and affecting more than 570 million people. The occurrence of disasters is uncertain and seriously damaging. When disasters occur, they not only cause serious economic losses and casualties, but also bring many challenges to people, such as the design of emergency plans, the management of disaster sites, the dispatch and transportation of emergency supplies and medicines, the evacuation and rescue of victims, etc. How to quickly and orderly carry out disaster response ha
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