OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Natural Hazards Review is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of Climate Change on Precipitation Patterns in an Arid Region Using GCM Models: Case Study of Isfahan-Borkhar Plain	114
Traffic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Statewide Analysis of Social Separation and Activity Restriction	97
Equitable Resilience in Infrastructure Systems: Empirical Assessment of Disparities in Hardship Experiences of Vulnerable Populations during Service Disruptions	59
Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach	52
Accessibility and Recovery Assessment of Houston’s Roadway Network due to Fluvial Flooding during Hurricane Harvey	43
Risk Assessment of Earthquake-Triggered Geohazards Surrounding Wenchuan, China	42
Bridging Twitter and Survey Data for Evacuation Assessment of Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Irma	38
Mobile Home Parks and Disasters: Understanding Risk to the Third Housing Type in the United States	34
Seismic Behavior of Plan and Vertically Irregular Structures: State of Art and Future Challenges	28
Importance of Households in Business Disaster Recovery	26
Floodplain Buyouts and Municipal Finance	26
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Coupled Natural-Physical-Social Systems: Cascading Impact of Hurricane-Induced Damages to Civil Infrastructure in Galveston, Texas	22
Development of Building Restoration Functions for Use in Community Recovery Planning to Tornadoes	22
Understanding Functionality and Operability for Infrastructure System Resilience	19
Opportunities and Challenges of Public Participation in Post-Disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons from Galveston, TX	19
Institutional Coordination of Disaster Management: Engaging National and Local Governments in Japan	19
Numerical Modeling of Overtopping-Induced Breach of Landslide Dams	18
Understanding Multisector Stakeholder Value Dynamics in Hurricane Michael: Toward Collaborative Decision-Making in Disaster Contexts	18
Development of Sinkhole Susceptibility Map of East Central Florida	17
Probabilistic Seismic-Stability Analysis of Slopes Considering the Coupling Effect of Random Ground Motions and Spatially-Variable Soil Properties	17
Effects of Infrastructure Service Disruptions Following Hurricane Irma: Multilevel Analysis of Postdisaster Recovery Outcomes	17
Validation of Time-Dependent Repair Recovery of the Building Stock Following the 2011 Joplin Tornado	17
Advances of Satellite Remote Sensing Technology in Earthquake Prediction	17
Effect of Infill-Wall Material Types and Modeling Techniques on the Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Buildings	16
People’s Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction: Recentering Power	15

Scientometric Analysis of Natural Disaster Management Research	15
Flood Damage Assessment in HAZUS Using Various Resolution of Data and One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional HEC-RAS Depth Grids	14
Fiscal Repercussions of Natural Disasters: Stylized Facts and Panel Data Evidences from India	14
New Empirical Model for Breaching of Earth-Rock Dams	14
Statistical Quantification of Texture Visual Features for Pattern Recognition by Analyzing Pre- and Post-Multispectral Landsat Satellite Imagery	14
Overview of Interdependency Models of Critical Infrastructure for Resilience Assessment	14
Impact of COVID-19 on the Diversity of the Construction Workforce	13
Changing Logistics of Evacuation Transportation in Hazardous Settings during COVID-19	13
Perceived Stakeholder Information Credibility and Hazard Adjustments: A Case of Induced Seismic Activities in Oklahoma	13
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies: Bridging Research Communities	13
Characterization of Critical Rainfall for Slopes Prone to Rainfall-Induced Landslides	13
Perceptions of Efficacy are Key Determinants of Mask-Wearing Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Diagnosis and Quantification of Postdisaster Construction Material Cost Fluctuations	13
Worldwide Predictions of Earthquake Casualty Rates with Seismic Intensity Measure and Socioeconomic Data: A Fragility-Based Formulation	12
Multihazard Damage and Loss Assessment of Bridges in a Highway Network Subjected to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards	12
Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity and Seismic Site Characterization for New Nuclear Power Plant Region, India	12
Cultural Competence for Hazards and Disaster Researchers: Framework and Training Module	12
Development and Performance Assessment of Winter Climate Hazard Models on Traffic Volume with Four Model Structure Types	11
Wind Risk Assessment of Electric Power Lines due to Hurricane Hazard	11
Rapid Perception of Public Opinion in Emergency Events through Social Media	10
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Earthquake Early Warning in Washington State	10
Assessment of Urban Flood Risk Factors Using Monte Carlo Analytical Hierarchy Process	10
GIS-Based Data Integration Approach for Rainfall-Induced Slope Failure Susceptibility Mapping in Clayey Soils	10
Ember Alerts: Assessing Wireless Emergency Alert Messages in Wildfires Using the Warning Response Model	10
Understanding Infrastructure Resilience, Social Equity, and Their Interrelationships: Exploratory Study Using Social Media Data in Hurricane Michael	10
Planning to Exacerbate Flooding: Evaluating a Houston, Texas, Network of Plans in Place during Hurricane Harvey Using a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard	10
Social Assessment of Community Resilience to Earthquake in Old Dhaka	9
Comparative Review and Assessment of Various Flood Retrofit Methods for Low-Rise Residential Buildings in Coastal Areas	9
Predictive Model for Hurricane Wind Hazard under Changing Climate Conditions	9
Ensemble Analysis of Climate-Change Impacts on Design-Service Life of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks across Canada	9
Rapid Damage Assessment Following Natural Disasters through Information Integration	9
Dynamic Modeling of In-Event Interdependencies in Community Resilience	9
Disaster Waste Management Challenges in Nepal: Health Impacts and the Need for Safe Practices	9
Relative Sea Level Rise Impacts on Storm Surge Flooding of Transportation Infrastructure	9
Vulnerability Indicators for Coastal Roadways Based on Barrier Island Morphology and Shoreline Change Predictions	9
Hydrodynamic Study of the Impact of Extreme Flooding Events on Wastewater Treatment Plants Considering Total Water Level	8
Establishing Conceptual Components for Urban Resilience: Taking Clues from Urbanization through a Planner’s Lens	8
Virtual Testbeds for Community Resilience Analysis: State-of-the-Art Review, Consensus Study, and Recommendations	8
Effects of Nonstationarity of Extreme Wind Speeds and Ground Snow Loads in a Future Canadian Changing Climate	8
Quantifying the Impacts of Storm Surge, Sea Level Rise, and Potential Reduction and Changes in Wetlands in Coastal Areas of the Chesapeake Bay Region	8
Applying the Protective Action Decision Model to Explain Cyclone Shutter Installation Behavior	8
Human Health Vulnerability to Summer Heat Extremes in Romanian-Bulgarian Cross-Border Area	8
Quantifying the Role of Vulnerability in Hurricane Damage via a Machine Learning Case Study	8
Incorporating Socioeconomic Metrics in Civil Engineering Projects: The Resilience Perspective	8
Deep Learning for Visual Analytics of the Spread of COVID-19 Infection in Crowded Urban Environments	8
Metanetwork Framework for Analysis of Actor-Plan-Task-Infrastructure Networks in Resilience Planning and Management	7
Connecting Social Capital and Vulnerability: Citation Network Analysis of Disaster Studies	7
Dilemma of the Tropics: Changes to Housing Safety Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities in Multihazard Environments	7
Variability of Mechanical Properties of Cellular Lightweight Concrete Infill and Its Effect on Seismic Safety	7
Exploring the Use of Wireless Emergency Alerts for Notifications Regarding COVID-19: Initial Lines of Inquiry	7

Allocation of Temporary Disaster-Response Facilities for Relief-Supplies Distribution: A Stochastic Optimization Approach for Afterdisaster Uncertainty	7
Modeling Interdependencies between the Building Portfolio, Transportation Network, and Healthcare System in Community Resilience	7
Impact of Annual Maximum Wind Speed in Mixed Wind Climates on Wind Hazard for Mainland China	7
Alignment between Disaster Policies and Practice: Characteristics of Interorganizational Response Coordination Following 2016 Hurricane Matthew in Florida	6
A Bayesian Network Modeling Approach for Time-Varying Flood Resilience Assessment of Housing Infrastructure System	6
Geoenvironmental Risk Evaluation of High-Efficiency Eco-Economic Zone in Weifang City, China	6
High-Speed GIS-Based Simulation of Storm Surge–Induced Flooding Accounting for Sea Level Rise	6
Taiwan’s Experience in Disaster Coordination	6
Managed Retreat in the Face of Climate Change: Examining Factors Influencing Buyouts of Floodplain Properties	6
Factors Influencing Individual Disaster Preparedness Information Seeking Behavior: Analysis of US Households	6
Evaluating Regional Flood Disaster Resilience Based on the DROP Model and TOPSIS Method: A Case Study of the Katsushika Ward, Tokyo	6
Modeling Household Earthquake Hazard Adjustment Intentions: An Extension of the Protection Motivation Theory	6
Seismic Stability Analysis of Caissons under Earthquake Forces Considering 3D Log-Spiral Failure Surface	6
Quantification of Compound Flooding over Roadway Network during Extreme Events for Planning Emergency Operations	6
Hurricane Risk Assessment for Residential Buildings in the Southeastern US Coastal Region in Changing Climate Conditions Using Artificial Neural Networks	6
Tornado-Level Estimates of Socioeconomic and Demographic Variables	6
Preliminary Documented Recovery Patterns and Observations from Video Cataloged Data of the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado	6
Response Efficacy Perception and Taking Action to Prepare for Disasters with Different Lead Time	6
Social Media Support Mechanisms for Organizational Adaptation in Governmental Response to Extreme Natural Hazards	6