OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Disaster Risk Science is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Building Classification System for Multi-hazard Risk Assessment	52
The Importance of Digital Elevation Model Selection in Flood Simulation and a Proposed Method to Reduce DEM Errors: A Case Study in Shanghai	52
Remote Sensing Based Rapid Assessment of Flood Crop Damage Using Novel Disaster Vegetation Damage Index (DVDI)	44
Leveraging Hazard, Exposure, and Social Vulnerability Data to Assess Flood Risk to Indigenous Communities in Canada	33
A Rapid Prediction Model of Urban Flood Inundation in a High-Risk Area Coupling Machine Learning and Numerical Simulation Approaches	33
A Critical Review of Social Resilience Properties and Pathways in Disaster Management	32
New Realization of Disaster Risk Reduction Education in the Context of a Global Pandemic: Lessons from Japan	31
Effects of Risk Perception on Disaster Preparedness Toward Typhoons: An Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior	29
Disaster Risk Resilience: Conceptual Evolution, Key Issues, and Opportunities	28
Simulation Performance Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis on a Coupled Inundation Model Combining SWMM and WCA2D	27
Multiperiod Optimal Allocation of Emergency Resources in Support of Cross-Regional Disaster Sustainable Rescue	27
Machine Learning-Based Evaluation of Susceptibility to Geological Hazards in the Hengduan Mountains Region, China	24
What We Measure Matters: The Case of the Missing Development Data in Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Monitoring	24
Rapid Prediction Model for Urban Floods Based on a Light Gradient Boosting Machine Approach and Hydrological–Hydraulic Model	23
Long-Term Improvement in Precautions for Flood Risk Mitigation: A Case Study in the Low-Lying Area of Central Vietnam	21
Extracting Natech Reports from Large Databases: Development of a Semi-Intelligent Natech Identification Framework	21
A Global Analysis of the Relationship Between Urbanization and Fatalities in Earthquake-Prone Areas	20
Measuring Resilience in the Assumed City	19
Disaster Risk Management Through the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure	18
Barriers and Drivers for Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Risks: The Case of South Korea	18
Evolution of Collaborative Governance in the 2015, 2016, and 2018 Myanmar Flood Disaster Responses: A Longitudinal Approach to a Network Analysis	18
Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Their Linkages with Sustainable Development over the Past 30 Years: A Review	17
Amplification of Flood Risks by the Compound Effects of Precipitation and Storm Tides Under the Nonstationary Scenario in the Coastal City of Haikou, China	17
Decision Making for Managing Community Flood Risks: Perspectives of United States Floodplain Managers	16
Effects of Rainfall and Underlying Surface on Flood Recession—The Upper Huaihe River Basin Case	15

When Disaster Risk Management Systems Fail: The Case of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe	15
Carbon Emission Risk and Governance	14
Building-Back-Better in Post-Disaster Recovery: Lessons Learnt from Cyclone Idai-Induced Floods in Zimbabwe	14
The Perception of Flood Risks: A Case Study of Babessi in Rural Cameroon	14
Social Vulnerability Factors and Reported Post-Disaster Needs in the Aftermath of Hurricane Florence	13
Natural and Socioeconomic Factors and Their Interactive Effects on House Collapse Caused by Typhoon Mangkhut	13
Development and Social Implementation of Smartphone App Nige-Tore for Improving Tsunami Evacuation Drills: Synergistic Effects Between Commitment and Contingency	12
Farmers’ Demand for Informal Risk Management Strategy and Weather Index Insurance: Evidence from China	12
A Reverse Dynamical Investigation of the Catastrophic Wood-Snow Avalanche of 18 January 2017 at Rigopiano, Gran Sasso National Park, Italy	12
Mapping the Global-Scale Maize Drought Risk Under Climate Change Based on the GEPIC-Vulnerability-Risk Model	12
Examining the Factors that Influence the Use of Social Media for Disaster Management by Underserved Communities	12
Uncertainty Reduction Through Data Management in the Development, Validation, Calibration, and Operation of a Hurricane Vulnerability Model	12
A Probabilistic Approach to the Evaluation of Seismic Resilience in Road Asset Management	12
Disaster Impacts Surveillance from Social Media with Topic Modeling and Feature Extraction: Case of Hurricane Harvey	11
Measuring Natural Hazard-Related Disasters through Self-Reports	11
A Hybrid Multi-Hazard Susceptibility Assessment Model for a Basin in Elazig Province, Türkiye	11
A River Flood and Earthquake Risk Assessment of Railway Assets along the Belt and Road	11
Using Climate Factors to Estimate Flood Economic Loss Risk	11
Flash Flood Risk Assessment and Driving Factors: A Case Study of the Yantanxi River Basin, Southeastern China	10
A Novel Approach to Measuring Spatiotemporal Changes in Social Vulnerability at the Local Level in Portugal	10
Empowered Stakeholders: Female University Students’ Leadership During the COVID-19-Triggered On-campus Evictions in Canada and the United States	10
Informal Caregiving and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Scoping Review	10
Challenges Associated with Creeping Disasters in Disaster Risk Science and Practice: Considering Disaster Onset Dynamics	10
Optimized Hot Spot and Directional Distribution Analyses Characterize the Spatiotemporal Variation of Large Wildfires in Washington, USA, 1970−2020	10
Assessing Capacity and Implementation Status of the Disaster Risk Management Strategy for Health and Community Disaster Resilience in Malawi	9
Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience, and Organizational Resilience: Commonalities, Distinctions, and Synthesis	9
Resilience in Agriculture: Communication and Energy Infrastructure Dependencies of German Farmers	9
Improving Wildfire Probability Modeling by Integrating Dynamic-Step Weather Variables over Northwestern Sichuan, China	9
A Framework on Fast Mapping of Urban Flood Based on a Multi-Objective Random Forest Model	9
DARTS—Drone and Artificial Intelligence Reconsolidated Technological Solution for Increasing the Oil and Gas Pipeline Resilience	9
“How Do We Actually Do Convergence” for Disaster Resilience? Cases from Australia and the United States	8
Risk-Layering for Indirect Effects	8
The Nature–Culture Distinction in Disaster Studies: The Recent Petition for Reform as an Opportunity for New Thinking?	8
“Listening to the Sounds of the Water”: Bringing Together Local Knowledge and Biophysical Data to Understand Climate-Related Hazard Dynamics	8
Simulation-Based and Risk-Informed Assessment of the Effectiveness of Tsunami Evacuation Routes Using Agent-Based Modeling: A Case Study of Seaside, Oregon	8
Characterizing Uncertainty in City-Wide Disaster Recovery through Geospatial Multi-Lifeline Restoration Modeling of Earthquake Impact in the District of North Vancouver	8
Urban Stormwater Modeling with Local Inertial Approximation Form of Shallow Water Equations: A Comparative Study	8
Filling the Disaster Data Gap: Lessons from Cataloging Singapore’s Past Disasters	8
Organizational Changes Needed in Disasters and Public Health Emergencies: A Qualitative Study among Managers at a Major Hospital	8
Risk of Flash Floods in Urban and Rural Municipalities Triggered by Intense Precipitation in Wielkopolska of Poland	8
Disaster Collaborative Exercises for Healthcare Teamwork in a Saudi Context	8
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Comprehensive Development Planning of the Cities in Nueva Ecija in the Philippines	8
An Urban Road Risk Assessment Framework Based on Convolutional Neural Networks	7
Status and Social Capital: A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Investigation of Flood Survivors in South Punjab, Pakistan	7
Chinese Built-up Land in Floodplains Moving Closer to Freshwaters	7
Impact of Virtual Disaster Collaboration Exercises on Disaster Leadership at Hospitals in Saudi Arabia	7
Disaster Tales as Communication Tool for Increasing Risk Resilience	7
Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM): Elements to Advance Its Study and Assessment	7
Territorial Resilience Through Visibility Analysis for Immediate Detection of Wildfires Integrating Fire Susceptibility, Geographical Features, and Optimization Methods	7
Estimating and Mapping Extreme Ice Accretion Hazard and Load Due to Freezing Rain at Canadian Sites	7

Mobile Alert and Warning in the United States and Japan: Confronting the Challenges of International Harmonization	7
Development of a Rapid Risk and Impact Assessment Tool to Enhance Response to Environmental Emergencies in the Early Stages of a Disaster: A Tool Developed by the European Multiple Environmental Threa	7
A Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Cultural Heritage Sites: The Case of the Roman Ruins of Tróia	7
Development of a Method for Assessing Country-Based Flood Risk at the Global Scale	7
Extreme Wind Variability and Wind Map Development in Western Java, Indonesia	7
Rapid Evaluation and Response to Impacts on Critical End-Use Loads Following Natural Hazard-Driven Power Outages: A Modular and Responsive Geospatial Technology	6
Synergistic Integration of Detailed Meteorological and Community Information for Evacuation from Weather-Related Disasters: Proposal of a “Disaster Response Switch”	6
Retracing Realistic Disaster Scenarios from Archival Sources: A Key Tool for Disaster Risk Reduction	6
Typhoon Risk Perception: A Case Study of Typhoon Lekima in China	6
COVID-19 and Ecosyndemic Vulnerability: Implications for El Niño-Sensitive Countries in Latin America	6
Toward Interoperable Multi-hazard Modeling: A Disaster Management System for Disaster Model Service Chain	6
Data, Disasters, and Space-Time Entanglements	6
The Coupling Effect of Flood Discharge and Storm Surge on Extreme Flood Stages: A Case Study in the Pearl River Delta, South China	6
(In)visibilities About the Vulnerabilities of People with Visual Impairments to Disasters and Climate Change: A Case Study in Cuiabá, Brazil	6
Risk Assessment of Tsunamis Along the Chinese Coast Due to Earthquakes	6
Multistate Models for the Recovery Process in the Covid-19 Context: An Empirical Study of Chinese Enterprises	6
Impacts as Triggers for Weather-Related Decision Making: Observations at the Berlin Fire Brigade Control and Dispatch Center	6
A Deep Learning Application for Building Damage Assessment Using Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery in Turkey Earthquake	6
Impacts of Climate Change on Snow Avalanche Activity Along a Transportation Corridor in the Tianshan Mountains	6
Tourism Developments Increase Tsunami Disaster Risk in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia	5
Resilience Building and Collaborative Governance for Climate Change Adaptation in Response to a New State of More Frequent and Intense Extreme Weather Events	5
Economic Ripple Effects of Individual Disasters and Disaster Clusters	5
Are Disasters a Risk to Regional Fiscal Balance? Evidence from Indonesia	5
Impact of Crisis Communication Strategies on People’s Attitudes toward Behavioral Guidelines Regarding COVID-19 and on Their Trust in Local Officials	5
Does Tenure Security Reduce Disaster Risk? A Comparative Study of the Nairobi Settlements of Kibera and Kawangware	5
Insights on Chemical and Natech Risk Management in Japan and South Korea: A Review of Current Practices	5
Appetite for Natech Risk Information in Japan: Understanding Citizens’ Communicative Behavior Towards Risk Information Disclosure Around Osaka Bay	5
Coordination and Cooperation are Essential: A Call for a Global Network to Enhance Integrated Human Health Risk Resilience Based on China’s COVID-19 Pandemic Coping Practice	5
Strategies to Build Trust and COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Engagement among Minority Groups in Scotland	5
Assessment of Building Physical Vulnerability in Earthquake-Debris Flow Disaster Chain	5
Heat Health Risk and Adaptability Assessments at the Subdistrict Scale in Metropolitan Beijing	5
Perceptions About Climate Change in the Brazilian Civil Defense Sector	4
What Makes Homeowners Consider Protective Actions to Reduce Disaster Risk? An Application of the Precaution Adoption Process Model and Life Course Theory	4
Mainstreaming Decentralization and Collaboration in Disaster Risk Management: Insights from Coastal Bangladesh	4
Assessing Thai Hospitals’ Evacuation Preparedness Using the Flexible Surge Capacity Concept and Its Collaborative Tool	4
Fostering Children’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction Through Play: A Case Study of LEGO and Minecraft	4
Predicting Hurricane Evacuation Decisions with Interpretable Machine Learning Methods	4
Residents’ Preferences for Rural Housing Disaster Insurance Attributes in Central and Western Tibet	4
Induced Earthquake Hazard by Geothermal Power Plants: Statistical Evaluation and Probabilistic Modeling	4
Attentiveness to Early Warning Drought Information: Implications for Policy Support and Climate Risk Reduction in Ghana	4
How Participatory is Participatory Flood Risk Mapping? Voices from the Flood Prone Dharavi Slum in Mumbai	4
Using Multidisciplinary Analysis to Develop Adaptation Options against Extreme Coastal Floods	4
Network Structure Optimization Method for Urban Drainage Systems Considering Pipeline Redundancies	4
Effects of Land Use Changes Across Different Urbanization Periods on Summer Rainfall in the Pearl River Delta Core Area	4
Factors Affecting Behaviors that Precede Evacuation at the Onset of a Heavy Rainstorm in Japan	4
Modeling the Resilience of Power Distribution Systems Subjected to Extreme Winds Considering Tree Failures: An Integrated Framework	4
A Systematic Analysis of Systems Approach and Flood Risk Management Research: Trends, Gaps, and Opportunities	4
Data-Driven Approaches to Integrated Disaster Risk Management	4
Estimation of Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Incorporating the Impacts of Vegetation on Slope Stability	4
Spatial Resilience to Wildfires through the Optimal Deployment of Firefighting Resources: Impact of Topography on Initial Attack Effectiveness	4
Identify Landslide Precursors from Time Series InSAR Results	4
Effects of Tectonic Setting and Hydraulic Properties on Silent Large-Scale Landslides: A Case Study of the Zhaobishan Landslide, China	4
Hazard Assessment and Hazard Mapping for Kuwait	3
Vulnerability Assessment Method for Immovable Cultural Relics Based on Artificial Neural Networks—An Example of a Heavy Rainfall Event in Henan Province	3
Distributed Simulation Platforms and Data Passing Tools for Natural Hazards Engineering: Reviews, Limitations, and Recommendations	3
Disaster Awareness and Preparedness Among Older Adults in Canada Regarding Floods, Wildfires, and Earthquakes	3
Beyond the Expected—Residual Risk and Cases of Overload in the Context of Managing Alpine Natural Hazards	3
Navigating Interoperability in Disaster Management: Insights of Current Trends and Challenges in Saudi Arabia	3
Financing Disaster Risk Reduction: Exploring the Opportunities, Challenges, and Threats Within the Southern African Development Community Region	3
Human–Animal Interactions in Disaster Settings: A Systematic Review	3
Estimating the Economic Effects of the Early Covid-19 Emergency Response in Cities Using Intracity Travel Intensity Data	3
Disaster Journalism in Print Media: Analysis of the Top 10 Hydrogeomorphological Disaster Events in Portugal, 1865–2015	3
Risk Assessment of Debris Flows Along the Karakoram Highway (Kashgar-Khunjerab Section) in the Context of Climate Change	3
Assessment of Agricultural Drought Vulnerability Based on Crop Growth Stages: A Case Study of Huaibei Plain, China	3
Disaster Risk Governance as Assemblage: The Chilean Framework of the 1985 San Antonio Earthquake	3
Dynamic Assessment of Spatiotemporal Population Distribution Based on Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study in Xining City, China	3
A Systematic Review of Forensic Approaches to Disasters: Gaps and Challenges	3
Perspectives on Compound Flooding in Chinese Estuary Regions	3
Quantitative Estimation of Pipeline Slope Disaster Risk in China	3
Decision Support for Integrated Management of Local-Level Adaptation to Climate Changes: The Case of Serbia	3
Evaluating the Influence of Multisource Typhoon Precipitation Data on Multiscale Urban Pluvial Flood Modeling	3
Understanding Farmers’ Preferences Towards Insurance Schemes that Promote Biosecurity Best Management Practices	3
Distress Characteristics in Embankment-Bridge Transition Section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in Permafrost Regions	3
A Two-Stage Evolutionary Game Model for Collaborative Emergency Management Between Local Governments and Enterprises	3
The Influence of Knowledge, Trust, and Perceived Risk on Firefighters’ Preparedness and Willingness to Respond to Nuclear Emergencies: The Case of South Korea	3
Dynamic Assessment of Global Maize Exposure to Extremely High Temperatures	3
A Regional Economy’s Resistance to the COVID-19 Shock: Sales Revenues of Micro-, Small-, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in South Korea	3
Extreme Climate and Absence from Work: Evidence from Jamaica	3
Experimental Evidence for Coverage Preferences in Flood Insurance	3