Crisis management: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

This study aims to analyse research on crisis management using a bibliometric review of 1569 articles collected from the Scopus database for the period between 1968 and 2022. Using Bibliometrix package in RStudio and Biblioshiny web apps, the current study analysed the annual publication trends, most active source titles, corresponding authors’ countries, most productive affiliations and examined citations pattern of the publication on crisis management. This study also discusses the themes based on occurrences and terms of the keywords of the documents. The number of publications on crisis management followed the major crisis of the world. Since COVID-19 has a global impact, the number of publications has increased during the last three years. This study reviewed publications related to crisis management over the past five decades. Accordingly, it can aid interested researchers in gaining a more in-depth understanding of crisis management.