OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction is 48. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Building risk amplification effect under loess landslides-hydraulic erosion-debris flow cascade in China	310
A scoping review of climate-related disasters in China, Indonesia and Vietnam: Disasters, health impacts, vulnerable populations and adaptation measures	220
Assessing the impact of evaluations of crisis management efforts	150
Understanding the involvement/exclusion paradox in disaster volunteering from a field-theoretical perspective	144
Assessment of attitudes toward critical actors during public health crises	140
The consequences of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of key informants	110
Population and housing recovery in Tōhoku, Japan	95
The model for assessing disaster literacy in nurses: Instrument development and cross-sectional validation study	94
The Cascadia Coastal Hazards and Resilience Training, Education, and Research (CHARTER) Fellows Mentoring Model for Underrepresented Students	94
Living in a pandemic: A review of COVID-19 integrated risk management	92
A feminist community-based participatory action research approach to advance climate justice	91
Leveraging local knowledge to develop local forecasts: A case study of sea-ice hazard forecasts for marine fisheries in Laizhou Bay, China	89
Geomorphological risk factors for river bridges	85
An expert system to quantify wildfire hazards in gardens and create effective defensible space	83
Official heat warnings miss situations with a detectable societal heat response in European countries	80
Corrigendum to ‘Enforcement of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown orders in Nigeria: Evidence of public (non)compliance and police illegalities’ [Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduc. volume (2022) 77, 103082]	80
Micro-theory on knowledge transfer to foster disaster resilience: A grounded theory approach	79
Strengthening opportunities to integrate informal resilience practices in formal flood resilience planning	75
Does social capital help in post-disaster recovery? Evidence from the Gorkha earthquake of Nepal	72
Application of landslide susceptibility towards urbanization suitability zonation in mountainous settings	67
Risk communication and risk perception along with its influencing factors in Covid-19 disease: Focusing on the Extended Parallel Process Model	66
Understanding risk communication in practice: Insights from municipalities in Alberta, Canada	66
Post-disaster housing and social considerations	65
Integrating visual spatial vulnerability to quantify fire-prone neighborhoods in cities: A case study of nanjing, China	64
Corrigendum to ‘Performance test of pilot Earthquake Early Warning system in western Java, Indonesia’ [Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 115 (2025) 105010]	64

Natural disasters and well-being in India: A household-level panel data analysis	62
Universities and multiple disaster scenarios: A transformative framework for disaster resilient universities	61
How do anthropogenic factors define flood risk perception of vulnerable communities? Evidence from Kelani River Lower Basin, Colombo, Sri Lanka	61
The performance of cumulative prospect theory's functional forms in decision-making behavior during building evacuation	60
Social capital and hurricane warning response	59
Factors influencing flood risk mitigation after wildfire: Insights for individual and collective action after the 2010 Schultz Fire	59
A post-hurricane building debris estimation workflow enabled by uncertainty-aware AI and crowdsourcing	58
Evaluation of national disaster management strategy and planning for flood management and impact reduction in Gaborone, Botswana	57
Evaluating the efficiency of relief centers in disaster and epidemic conditions using multi-criteria decision-making methods and GIS: A case study	57
A data-driven, scenario-based human evacuation model for passenger ships addressing hybrid uncertainty	56
Advanced-level paramedic perspectives on competence requirements for responding to radiological/nuclear incidents	56
Flood impacts on healthcare facilities and disaster preparedness – A systematic review	55
GLOSI taxonomy: A tool for ‘seismic risk assessment’ oriented classification of school buildings	55
Perception risk, preventive behaviors and assessing the relationship between their various dimensions: A cross-sectional study in the Covid-19 peak period	55
Perception on landslide risk in Malaysia: A comparison between communities and experts' surveys	54
A comparative study on pedestrian flow through bottlenecks between flood evacuation and land evacuation	54
Agent-based simulation for pedestrian evacuation: A systematic literature review	54
A multicriteria decision model to improve emergency preparedness: Locating-allocating urban shelters against floods	53
Spatio-temporal evolution of public opinion on urban flooding: Case study of the 7.20 Henan extreme flood event	52
Disaster risk management and cultural heritage: The perceptions of European world heritage site managers on disaster risk management	51
Augmenting natural hazard exposure modelling using natural language processing	51
Millions more Egyptians will be exposed to drought by 2100 under the goals of the Paris climate agreement	48
Study on urban flood early warning system considering flood loss	48