Knowledge Domain and Emerging Trends of Social Vulnerability Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1991–2021)

Hua Li and Weijun Wang
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Hua Li: College of Economics, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Weijun Wang: College of Tourism, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 14, 1-15

Abstract: Carrying out social vulnerability research has become an important way to understand the sustainable development of resources, the environment, populations, and societies. Clarifying the research context and development trend of social vulnerability is of great significance to the follow-up theoretical research on and practical exploration of sustainable social development. With the help of a CiteSpace knowledge map analysis, this study reveals the research hotspots and their evolution in different periods and puts forward the key problems in and future direction of social vulnerability research in the future. This study found that the number of articles on social vulnerability research showed a steady upward trend and that the research experienced roughly three stages: an embryonic stage, a development stage, and a stable stage. The United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and China accounted for the majority of the research, but the intensity of cooperation between them is still weak. Vulnerability assessment and risk assessment in the context of policy and environmental change are hot topics in the current research. In the future, it is necessary to focus on the comprehensive research on the integrated and cross-scale research on social vulnerability, research on its occurrence and evolution, and on the dynamic monitoring as well as optimal regulation of social vulnerability under multiple pressures.

Keywords: social vulnerability; CiteSpace; knowledge mapping; research hotspot; development trend (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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