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Researchers at Beijing Normal University Target Life Science Research (Visualized analysis of developing trends and hot topics in natural disaster research)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- Data detailed on Life Science Research have been presented. According to news reporting out of Beijing, People's Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "This study visualized and analyzed the developing trends and hot topics in natural disaster research. 19694 natural disaster-related articles (January 1900 to June 2015) are indexed in the Web of Science database. The first step in this study is using complex networks to visualize and analyze these articles."

Financial supporters for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Plan of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (see also Life Science Research).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Beijing Normal University, "CiteSpace and Gephi were employed to generate a countries collaboration network and a disciplines collaboration network, and then attached hot topics to countries and disciplines, respectively. The results show that USA, China, and Italy are the three major contributors to natural disaster research. 'Prediction model', 'social vulnerability', and 'landslide inventory map' are three hot topics in recent years. They have attracted attention not only from large countries like China but also from small countries like Panama and Turkey. Comparing two hybrid networks provides details of natural disaster research. Scientists from USA and China use image data to research earthquakes. Indonesia and Germany collaboratively study tsunamis in the Indian Ocean. However, Indonesian studies focus on modeling and simulations, while German research focuses on early warning technology. This study also introduces an activity index (AI) and an attractive index (AAI) to generate time evolution trajectories of some major countries from 2000 to 2013 and evaluate their trends and performance. Four patterns of evolution are visible during this 14-year period."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "China and India show steadily rising contributions and impacts, USA and England show relatively decreasing research efforts and impacts, Japan and Australia show fluctuating activities and stable attraction, and Spain and Germany show fluctuating activities and increasing impacts."

For more information on this research see: Visualized analysis of developing trends and hot topics in natural disaster research. Plos One, 2018;13(1):e0191250. (Public Library of Science - www.plos.org; Plos One - www.plosone.org)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S. Shen, Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include C. Cheng, J. Yang and S. Yang.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191250. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Beijing, Life Science Research, People's Republic of China.