OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Disaster Prevention and Management is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward development of comprehensive national disaster response plans: an evaluation of Nigeria's national disaster response plan, 2002	27
Towards a liberatory pedagogy of disaster risk reduction among built environment educators	24
Reparative planning through contextual vulnerabilities for disaster mitigation: a Gulf Coast case study	21
Guest editorial: Advancing reflexive, creative and critical research methodologies for disaster studies	21
Social learning for enhancing social-ecological resilience to disaster-shocks: a policy Delphi approach	20
An Afrocentric approach to climate change adaptation: indigenous seasonal predictors among Ndau people in Chimanimani in Zimbabwe	19
Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context	17
Guest editorial: Tensions between tradition and innovation in disaster risk reduction, climate action and reconstruction	17
Reconstruction of heritage in Bhaktapur, Nepal: examining tensions and negotiations between the “local” and the “global”	13
(Un)studied vulnerability: introducing UndocuCrit to critical disaster studies	13
Gender and leadership in the wake of the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile	13
A stranger with your door key: are we mistaking alienation for place attachment?	12
Disaster capitalism in times of COVID-19 conversation on disasters: deconstructed on September 15, 2020	10
Design process of ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Nakahama Elementary School	10
Interview between Bruno Haghebaert and Ian Davis concerning the early days of disaster risk reduction 1970–2000	9
Viewing humanitarian project closure through the lens of an ethics of the temporary	8
Community mosaic models – a tool for defining communities within disaster risk management	8
Untangling the yarn: voicing early career experiences with decoloniality and liberation	8
Disasters are not natural, and neither are hazards	8
“System aisa hi hai” – exploring local researchers' perspective on barriers toward conducting locally relevant disaster research	8
Drivers of disaster planning among African-American households	7
Understanding “process vs product” in the shelter and settlements sector: a reflection	7
Dynamics of knowledge creation and use for disaster management in Chokwe district, Mozambique	7
Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction	7
Cross-country use of participatory research methods in practice to enhance inclusive decision-making	7

Desalted waters: unveiling and tackling injustice in San Andres Island water crises	6
Post-disaster research: challenges and opportunities conversation on disasters: deconstructed on 11th of June 2021	6
Turkmen women’s traditional craft skills in post-disaster recovery: the case of the 2019 Northeast floods in Iran	6
Decolonising knowledge production in disaster management: a feminist perspective	6
The relativity of perspective: exploring the disconnect between Indigenous and Western paradigms of disaster risk perception	6
Managing systemic risk in emergency management, organizational resilience and climate change adaptation	6
The “New Threats” security doctrine and the militarization of disasters in the Americas: an analysis of the Chile-US alliance (2010–2020)	6
Policies and actions to support surfers in drowning prevention: insight from Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping	6
The dynamics of cross-sector collaboration in disasters	5
Publisher's note	5
Pacifica: a poem on coastal resilience	5
Working equids supporting women’s disaster risk management	5
Developing a monitoring and evaluation framework in a humanitarian non-profit organisation using agile methodology	5
DRR pioneers' interview [1]	5
Community and governmental perspectives on climate disaster risk finance instruments in Colombia	4
Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment: assessment using the Dynamic Model of Multi-hazard Mitigation CoBenefits (DYNAMMICs) model	4
Publisher’s note	4
Guest editorial: GAR 2022 special issue: addressing systemic risk – the future of risk governance	4
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters	4
A conceptual exploration of researcher positionality and critical reflexivity in disaster research through the lens of Bourdieu	4
The reproduction of vulnerability: the incarceration and homelessness transcript for the Disasters: Deconstructed livestream on 31 March 2022	4
Disaster time: reconceptualizing disasters and temporal politics	4
Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science	4
The importance of belonging: reflections on a participatory action research project in Jacksonville, Florida	4
Problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies	4
Critical points in the views of G7’s country leaders on national agendas for SDGs and SFDRR	4
Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India	4
Publisher’s Note	3
Guest editorial: Introduction to the special issue on “conversations with disasters: deconstructed”	3
“Critique is not a verb”: is peer review stifling the dialogue in disaster scholarship?	3
The blame game: disaster, queerness and prejudice	3
The Differential Risk Transfer: a new approach for reducing vulnerability to climate-related hazards	3
Exploring disaster ontologies from Chinese and Western perspectives: commonalities and nuances	3
The potential for community-driven ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in South Asia: a literature review	3
Raised under bad stars: negotiating a culture of disaster preparedness	3
Assembling fire: beyond engineering solutions	3
20 years of Radical Disaster Interpretations: reflections and aspirations (RADIX @ 20!). Conversation on disasters: deconstructed on 13 October 2021	3
Adaptive innovation and ethical dilemmas: a participatory action research study amongst cyclone-impacted households in Tamil Nadu, India	3
Guest editorial: Introduction to the special issue: liberating disaster studies	2
A framework to integrate indigenous knowledge into disaster risk reduction to build disaster resilience: insights from rural South Africa	2
Guest editorial: Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies	2
Flood risk governance in Brazil and the UK: facilitating knowledge exchange through research gaps and the potential of citizen-generated data	2
Sculpting stories: methods to unsettle knowledge production in disasters	2
Advances and challenges in DRR investment and financing: an analysis in three parts – Part I. Introduction and Section 1: Capitalising on history to address challenges in disaster risk reduction (DRR)	2
“It keeps eating at you, little by little”: a photo essay on drought experiences across Morocco's agro-pastoral landscapes	2
Reviewing the place of migrants in disasters: a personal perspective	2
Governing systemic and cascading disaster risk in Indonesia: where do we stand and future outlook	2
“Effing Awful!”: developing audio representation as a medium for conveying people’s experiences of flooded homes	2
Attitudes towards the release of ALPS water from Fukushima NPP	2

Daily vulnerability and disaster resilience: a case study of preferred community assets and social capital for Latinx coastal residents	2
Assessing the accountability mechanisms in the 2015 Nepal earthquakes housing reconstruction: a case study of Bungamati, Lalitpur Metropolitan city, Nepal	2
Navigating trauma: mental well-being after Kiteezi landfill collapse and residential displacement in Uganda	2
Reshaping disaster experiences: lessons from Samoan women’s disaster resilience	1
Challenges for professionalism in civil defense and protection	1
Learning to manage the unexpected: applying Weick and Sutcliffe’s HRO principles to oil tanker accidents	1
Editorial: On the local in localised disaster risk reduction	1
Post-disaster neoliberal normalization in the 1985, 2010 and 2015 Chilean earthquakes	1
The reflective research diary: a tool for more ethical and engaged disaster research	1
DRR pioneer interview with Thea Hilhorst	1
Japanese stone monuments and disaster memory – perspectives for DRR	1
Guest editorial: DRR pioneer interviews	1
Creative research with indigenous women: challenging marginalisation through collective spaces and livelihoods practices	1
The importance of context-relevant feminist perspectives in disaster studies. The case of a research on forest fires with the Atikamekw First Nation	1
Book review: In the shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador	1
Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies	1
Fukushima twelve years after the nuclear accident	1
Get ready: disaster preparedness and response for people with chronic illnesses living in hazard-prone Petone, Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Trust in disaster resilience	1
Publisher’s note	1
Emergency health in the aftermath of disasters: a post-Hurricane Matthew skin outbreak in rural Haiti	1
Rahat-Sahayog(relief support): examining disaster emergency response in the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake 2015	1
The DRR early days interview: John Twigg	1
Collaborative governance based on Triple Helix strategy for disaster risk reduction digitalization: experience from China	1
Advances and challenges in DRR investment and financing: an analysis in three parts – Part III. Section 3: Expert contributions to understanding present challenges for DRR and the pathways taken in th	1
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) pioneers interview with Charlotte Benson [1]	1
Food environments in contexts of disasters in Mozambique	1
Unequally prepared: a distributive equity study of local emergency management funding in Virginia, USA	1