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Environmental Hazards
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Environmental Hazards

1747-7891

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tenh20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 623 8 9 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 27
Documents by Best Scientists*: 27
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 64
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.59
Impact Factor: 1.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Hazards?

The foci of the journal are Environmental resource management, Environmental planning, Vulnerability, Flood myth and Emergency management. Environmental Hazards facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Climate change, Livelihood and Natural hazard. Environmental Hazards focused on Climate change research but expanded to cover Natural resource economics.

The Environmental planning works featured in it incorporate elements from Risk management, Natural disaster and Environmental protection. Studies on Risk management discussed in the journal link to the field of Public relations. The research on Public relations tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Government and Preparedness.

While the journal focused on Vulnerability, it was also able to explore topics like Hazard and Economic growth. The study on Flood myth presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Actuarial science.

  • Environmental resource management (24.60%)
  • Environmental planning (19.84%)
  • Vulnerability (16.67%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Economic resilience to natural and man-made disasters: Multidisciplinary origins and contextual dimensions (489 citations)
  • Risk and vulnerability indicators at different scales: Applicability, usefulness and policy implications (442 citations)
  • The potential for combining indigenous and western knowledge in reducing vulnerability to environmental hazards in small island developing states (181 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Hazards:

The journal papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Environmental resource management, Flood myth, Environmental planning, Natural hazard and Risk management. While the journal papers focused on Environmental resource management, they were also able to explore topics like Vulnerability, Climate change, Adaptive capacity and Livelihood. In addition to Natural hazard research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Hazard, Risk analysis (engineering), Preparedness, Empirical research and Risk assessment.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Social science
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Environmental planning, Vulnerability, Environmental resource management, Emergency management and Flood myth. It addresses concerns in the field of Environmental planning by exploring it in line with topics in Natural disaster which intersect with Jurisdiction, Local government and Collaborative governance subjects. Vulnerability research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Gender equity, Flooding (psychology) and Urban infrastructure.

The concepts on Environmental resource management presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Risk and resilience, Adaptive capacity and Social dynamics. Topics in Emergency management explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Indigenous and Public administration. The work on Flood myth tackled in it brings together disciplines like Yangtze delta, Urban expansion, Operations research and Water resource management.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Trust in stakeholders and social support: risk perception and preparedness by the Wenchuan earthquake survivors (9 citations)
  • Hydrometeorological disasters in urban areas of Costa Rica, Central America (8 citations)
  • Strategic property buyouts to enhance flood resilience: a multi-criteria spatial approach for incorporating ecological values into the selection process (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Environmental Hazards (based on the number of publications) are:

  • John Handmer (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Rajib Shaw (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John McAneney (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Jean-Christophe Gaillard (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Boris Porfiriev (5 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Environmental Hazards (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Middlesex University (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • RMIT University (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Kyoto University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University College London (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sichuan University (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.00% of all publications and 50.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Temporal and spatial change in disaster resilience in US counties, 2010–2015*

    Susan L. Cutter;Sahar Derakhshan

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Economic ‘normalisation’ of disaster losses 1998–2020: a literature review and assessment

    Roger Pielke

    (2021)
    43 Citations
  • Strategic property buyouts to enhance flood resilience: a multi-criteria spatial approach for incorporating ecological values into the selection process

    Kayode O. Atoba;Samuel D. Brody;Wesley E. Highfield;Christine C. Shepard

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Financial recovery schemes in Austria: how planned relocation is used as an answer to future flood events

    Thomas Thaler;Sven Fuchs

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Progress in the early warning system in Aceh province, Indonesia since the 2004 earthquake-tsunami

    Sofyan Sufri;Febi Dwirahmadi;Dung Phung;Shannon Rutherford

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Methodological issues in natural disaster loss normalisation studies

    W.J. Wouter Botzen;Francisco Estrada;Richard S.J. Tol

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Investigating ways to better communicate flood risk: the tight coupling of perceived flood map usability and accuracy

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Further internationalisation of Environmental Hazards and its links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Trends and future research in climate migration: a bibliometric analysis of forty years

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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