Abstract
Risk perception is important in organizational and societal governance contexts. This article presents a high-level analysis of risk perception research using Web of Science core collection databases, scientometrics methods and visualization tools. The focus is on trends in outputs, geographical and temporal trends, and patterns in the associated scientific categories. Thematic clusters and temporal dynamics of focus topics are identified using keyword analysis. A co-citation analysis is performed to identify the evolution of research fronts and key documents. The results indicate that research output is growing fast, with most contributions originating from western countries. The domain is highly interdisciplinary, rooted in psychology and social sciences, but branching into domains related to environmental sciences, medicine, and engineering. Significant research themes focus on perceptions related to health, with a focus on cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, and epidemiology, natural hazards and major disasters, traffic accidents, technological and industrial risks, and customer trust. Risk perception research originated from consumer choice decisions, with subsequent research fronts focusing on understanding the risk perception concept, and on developing taxonomies and measurement methods. Applied research fronts focus on environmental hazards, traffic accidents, breast cancer and, more recently, e-commerce transactions and flood risk. Based on the results, various avenues for future research are described.
Highlights
Introduction iationsRisk perception concerns the intuitive, commonsensical notions people form about risks
Risk perceptions are the result of an experiential system of thinking, which is affective and associative, and uses concrete images, metaphors, and narratives to quickly obtain a holistic notion about an issue
The overall research aims described in the introduction are formulated here as the following research questions about the risk perception domain, in line with step one of
Summary
Introduction iationsRisk perception concerns the intuitive, commonsensical notions people form about risks. In contrast to being a result of analytic thought, rooted in logical connections and factual evidence, people form these perceptions based contextual cues, their personal experiences, social communication, and cultural traditions [1]. Risk perceptions are the result of an experiential system of thinking, which is affective and associative, and uses concrete images, metaphors, and narratives to quickly obtain a holistic notion about an issue. This experiential mode of thinking is oriented towards immediate decision making and action [2]. Correct and incorrect interpretations of correlations between risk perceptions and risk behaviors [70]
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