Abstract

Resilience is an important issue in urban development, and community resilience (CR) is the most typical representative in building urban resilience, which has become the forefront of international resilience research. This paper presents a bibliometric and visual analysis of community resilience research collected from the WoS Core Collection database over the past two decades. H-index, citation frequency, centrality and starting year were adopted to analyze the research objects by bibliometric tools including CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and Gephi. The national and institutional characteristics of macro-geographical distribution and the characteristics of disciplines, journals, authors, and author cooperation of micro-knowledge network distribution were revealed. Finally, the potential research directions of community resilience in the future were discussed. The results show that there are three stages in community resilience research. Seven intellectual bases constitute the research background for community resilience, including social capital mechanism, the evolution of resilience knowledge, earthquake resistance and disaster mitigation, substance abuse, resilient development in rural communities, resilience-building in the least-developed countries, and emergency preparedness. Our analysis shows that the hottest community resilience research topics are the concept of resilience, climate resilience, the social capital mechanism, macro-environment and disaster-reduction policies, and an evaluation index system for community resilience.

Highlights

  • The objective of this study is to present a bibliometric and visual analysis of the past two decades of community resilience research

  • This paper explores the following five questions: (1) What is the overall publication trend of community resilience research in the world? (2) Which countries or regions have been dominant in the field of community resilience? (3) Which disciplines, journals, institutions, and authors in community resilience research are the most influential? (4) What are the most important intellectual bases and research hotspots in community resilience research? (5) What is the future development trend of community resilience, and what suggestions can be made to scholars and policymakers?

  • Based on the visualized network and frequency statistics, the macro-geographical distribution of community resilience research was investigated in terms of countries and institutions

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Summary

A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Global Community

Qiaoyun Yang 1 , Dan Yang 1 , Peng Li 1, *, Shilu Liang 1 and Zhenghu Zhang 2, *.

Introduction
Methodology
Data Acquisition
Temporal Distribution of Community Resilience Research
Macro Global Geographic Distribution of Community Resilience Research
Distribution of Institutions
Distribution of Categories
Distribution of Co-Citation Journals
Distribution of Author Collaboration
Intellectual Bases of Community Resilience
Research Hotspots of Community Resilience
Findings
Conclusions
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