OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Disaster Prevention and Management is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A neglected issue: informal settlements, urban development, and disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean	37
Research fatigue in COVID-19 pandemic and post-disaster research: causes, consequences and recommendations	37
Top-down reconstruction and the failure to “build back better” resilient communities after disaster: lessons from the 2009 L'Aquila Italy earthquake	29
Stop going around in circles: towards a reconceptualisation of disaster risk management phases	28
Fire risk reduction on the margins of an urbanizing world	22
Home buyouts: a tool for mitigation or recovery?	21
Lost (and found?) in translation: key terminology in disaster studies	20
Good governance and local level policy implementation for disaster-risk-reduction: actual, perceptual and contested perspectives in coastal communities in Bangladesh	14
Considerations for creating equitable and inclusive communication campaigns associated with ShakeAlert, the earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the USA	13
When disaster management agencies create disaster risk: a case study of the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency	12
Social learning, innovative adaptation and community resilience to disasters: the case of flash floods in Bangladesh	12
Mythopolitics of “community”: an unstable but necessary category	11
The paradox of community involvement: rebuilding Minamisanriku	10
Strengthening risk-informed decision-making: scenarios for human vulnerability and exposure to extreme events	10
We said, they said: the politics of conceptual frameworks in disasters and climate change in Colombia and Latin America	10
Social capital and livelihood strategies in response after 2013 Kedarnath disaster (India)	9
Understanding informal volunteer behavior for fast and resilient disaster recovery: an application of entrepreneurial effectuation theory	9
Assessing disaster capitalism in post-disaster processes in Chile: neoliberal reforms and the role of the corporate class	9
Participatory child-centered disaster risk reduction education: an innovative Chinese NGO program	9
Preliminary research on sponge city concept for urban flood reduction: a case study on ten sponge city pilot projects in Shanghai, China	9
Crisis communication planning and nonprofit organizations	9
Disability inclusiveness of early warning system: a study on flood-prone areas of Bangladesh	8
Social vulnerability and disasters: development and evaluation of a CONVERGE training module for researchers and practitioners	8
Japanese stone monuments and disaster memory – perspectives for DRR	7
Consequences of post-disaster policies and relocation approaches: two communities from rural China	7

Disaster risk governance: institutional vulnerability assessment with emphasis on non-structural measures in the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco (PE), Brazil	7
Decolonising knowledge production in disaster management: a feminist perspective	7
Knowledge adoption in post-disaster housing self-recovery	7
Social learning for enhancing social-ecological resilience to disaster-shocks: a policy Delphi approach	7
The social construction of systemic risk: towards an actionable framework for risk governance	7
Relocalisation for degrowth and disaster risk reduction	7
Post-disaster permanent housing: the case of the 2003 Bingöl earthquake in Turkey	7
Ethical considerations of disaster research in conflict-affected areas	6
The storm after the storm: the long-term lingering impacts of hurricanes on schools	6
Social environmental injustices against indigenous peoples: the Belo Monte dam	6
Disaster racism: using Black sociology, critical race theory and history to understand racial disparity to disaster in the United States	6
From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies	6
Guest editorial: Introduction to calling for change in disaster studies – rethinking disaster studies	6
Assessing public health risk factors for internally displaced households in North Darfur, Sudan	5
Expanding the transdisciplinary conversation towards pluriversal distributive disaster recovery: development ethics and interculturality	5
The reflective research diary: a tool for more ethical and engaged disaster research	5
The #weResilient strategy for downscaling local resilience and sustainable development: the Potenza province and municipalities of Potenza and Pignola case	5
Governing systemic and cascading disaster risk in Indonesia: where do we stand and future outlook	5
Local perspectives on landslide prevention and management in Kalimpong district, West Bengal, India	5
Prioritizing psychosocial services for children, youth and families postdisaster	5
Structural analysis of how place attachment and risk perceptions affect the willingness to live in an earthquake-prone area	4
Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping	4
Managing disasters integrating traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge systems: a study from Narayani basin, Nepal	4
Emotional and behavioural responses to the 19 September 2017 earthquake: the case of the occupants of three multi-storey buildings	4
Addressing capacities of local communities in a changing context in Nepal	4
Examining relational social ontologies of disaster resilience: lived experiences from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Chile and Andean territories	4
Editorial	4
Humanitarian WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) technologies: exploring recovery after recurring disasters in Assam, India	4
Guest editorial: Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies	4
Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context	4
Epistemological freedom: activating co-learning and co-production to decolonise knowledge production	4
Clashes of cultures during crises: coordinating firefighter, police and paramedic interactions	4
“Inamura no hi” (“the rice bale fire”), its evolving story and global relevance: the politics of tsunami preparedness in Japan	4
Guest editorial: Exploring inclusive publishing practices with early career disaster-studies researchers	4
Crisis management in high-reliability organizations: lessons from Brazilian air disasters	4
Disaster conversations: intersecting perspectives on cross-cultural disaster research	3
Promoting School’s Recovery and Resilience after the Chi-Chi earthquake	3
The correlations between livelihood capitals and perceived recovery	3
Reconstruction of heritage in Bhaktapur, Nepal: examining tensions and negotiations between the “local” and the “global”	3
Rural cooperatives in disaster risk reduction and management: contributions and challenges	3
Editorial	3
How does government discourse make people vulnerable?	3
When the mountain broke: disaster governance in Sierra Leone	3
Towards a liberatory pedagogy of disaster risk reduction among built environment educators	3
Reconceptualizing disaster phases through aMetis-based approach	3
Challenges for professionalism in civil defense and protection	3
Factors influencing preparedness self-efficacy among Hispanics and Latinos in the United States	3
Interruptions: imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America	3
Addressing the interplay of the Sendai Framework with sustainable development goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: moving forward or going backwards?	2
Developing a monitoring and evaluation framework in a humanitarian non-profit organisation using agile methodology	2

Governance quality, administrative values and disaster risk management	2
Potential non-disasters of 2021	2
Facilitators and barriers to developing firefighter resilience	2
(In)Visibilization through decolonial delinking? Disrupting the permanently neglected disaster at the border of Colombia and Ecuador	2
Gender mainstreaming in risk reduction and resilience-building strategies: local conceptualisation of gender and masculinities in Malawi and Zambia	2
Editorial	2
Identifying the underlying risk factors of local communities in Chile	2
Exploring disaster ontologies from Chinese and Western perspectives: commonalities and nuances	2
How can a municipal government continue operations during megadisasters? An analysis of preparedness using complex adaptive systems	2
Flood risk governance in Brazil and the UK: facilitating knowledge exchange through research gaps and the potential of citizen-generated data	2
Individualism and collectivism in small-scale fisheries post-3.11 Japan	2
How fringe cyclone experience affects predictions of damage severity	2
Disaster justice for people with disabilities	2
The importance of context-relevant feminist perspectives in disaster studies. The case of a research on forest fires with the Atikamekw First Nation	2
Learning in municipalities after disasters	2
Measuring resilience: by whom and for whom? A case study of people-centred resilience indicators in New Zealand	2
Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand	2
Emergency health in the aftermath of disasters: a post-Hurricane Matthew skin outbreak in rural Haiti	2
Editorial: On priorities, values and relationships in practice: a new road for disaster scholarly publishing	2
Managing systemic risk in emergency management, organizational resilience and climate change adaptation	2
Interoperability and standardization: lessons from the fruit-bowl	2
Trust in disaster resilience	2
Participatory 3D model to promote intergenerational engagement for disaster risk reduction in São Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil	2