1. Research Pattern of Disaster Planning
Khoot-Peng Cheah1*, Wen-Ta Chiu1,2, Yee-Shuan Lee3 and Yuh-Shan Ho3#
1Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University
2Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital
3Bibliometric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital
Introduction
Disaster, natural or manmade, occurred in increasing regularity and ferocity. It was concentrated in time and space in a society and incurred losses to its members and disrupted the essential functions of the society. Disaster planning is an arduous task and is one of the major concern of many countries all over the world. In the light of this, we are interested in the research pattern of disaster planning in recent years. In this study, a quantitative analysis was done on disaster planning related publications during the time span of 1991 to 2002.
Methodology
Analysis was based on Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database using “Disaster planning” as the keyword to search as a part of the title, abstract or keyword.
Yearly production increased
Results and Discussion
84% of the papers were in the form of articles, 6% as book review, and 4% as editorial materials
284 papers were published in 189 journals with an average annual production of 24
Over 97% were published in English
Total citation: 645
Yearly citation: 53.75
Citation per paper: 2.27
Relationship between number of author and paper output
Publication output, citation frequency, and CPP of various publishing countries
P: Publication, C: Times cited, CPP: Citation per publication, RCR: Relative citation rate
Publication output and CPP of various page counts
Conclusion
Top ten producing countries were all active in scientific research and mostly were developed countries
Publication trend suggested that disaster planning was a world research emphasis during the period of 1997 to 2001.