Abstract
When an emergency occurs, effective decisions should be made in a limited time to reduce the casualties and economic losses as much as possible. In the past decades, emergency decision-making (EDM) has become a research hotspot and a lot of studies have been conducted for better managing emergency events under tight time constraint. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the literature on this topic. The objective of this paper is to provide academic community with a complete bibliometric analysis of the EDM researches to generate a global picture of developments, focus areas, and trends in the field. A total of 303 journal publications published between 2010 and 2020 were identified and analyzed using the VOSviewer in regard to cooperation network, co-citation network, and keyword co-occurrence network. The findings indicate that the annual publications in this research field have increased rapidly since 2014. Based on the cooperation network and co-citation network analyses, the most productive and influential countries, institutions, researchers, and their cooperation networks were identified. Using the co-citation network analysis, the landmark articles and the core journals in the EDM area are found out. With the help of the keyword co-occurrence network analysis, research hotspots and development of the EDM domain are determined. According to current trends and blind spots in the literature, possible directions for further investigation are finally suggested for EDM. The literature review results provide valuable information and new insights for both scholars and practitioners to grasp the current situation, hotspots and future research agenda of the EDM field.
Highlights
During the past decades, different kinds of emergency events occurred frequently around the world, such as the nuclear power plant explosion of Japan in 2011, the Thallium pollution event in China in 2017, the explosion at a chemicalSchool of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of ChinaCollege of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, People’s Republic of China plant in China in 2019, and the transmission and infection of novel coronavirus in 2019
It can be seen that the field of emergency decision-making (EDM) is still at an early stage because it was beginning to come into focus since the year 2010 and the total number of publications in 2020 still does not exceed 60
It is forecasted that the number of studies on the topic will continue to increase in the approaching years since how to effectively address EDM problems in time is of great significance to ensure the safety of life and minimize the economic loss of emergencies
Summary
Different kinds of emergency events occurred frequently around the world, such as the nuclear power plant explosion of Japan in 2011, the Thallium pollution event in China in 2017, the explosion at a chemicalCollege of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China. A lot of studies have been performed on emergency management and the EDM problems have
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