Social protection in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: A bibliometric and thematic review

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Table 1. Keywords used to retrieve documents.

Keyword Search	Search Criteria	Database*	Research Results	Date Searched
(“Social protection” OR “social assistance” OR “safety nets”) AND (“climate change” or “disaster*”)	Title, Abstract, and Authors keywords	Web of Science Core Collection (including SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, ESCI)	142	23 October 2021

*SCI-expanded: Science Citation Index – Expanded

SSCI: Social Sciences Citation Index

A&HCI: Arts and Humanities Citation Index

ESCI: Emerging Sources Citation Index

Table 2. Summary of publications in Web of science.

Fields	Summary of publications
Articles*	142
Sources (Journals)	102
Citations	4185
Average citations per article	41.02
Authors	397
Authors per article	2.79
Author’s keywords	434
Institutions	269
Countries	57

Retrieved 23 October 2021

Figure 1. Annual number of publications related to social protection, disasters, and climate change (Retrieved 23 October 2021).

Figure 2. a) Top-ten disciplinary categories, b) Top-ten publications sources, c) Top-ten keywords used, and d) Top-ten countries.

Figure 3. Network map of author’s keywords (2 co-occurrence criteria with 61 Keywords, excluding country names). Retrieved 23 October 2021

Table 3. The top ten most cited publications.

Sr No.	Name of the study	Number of citations (WoS)
1	Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?	758
2	Revealing the vulnerability of people and places: A case study of Georgetown County, South Carolina	728
3	Addressing human vulnerability to climate change: Towards a “no-regrets” approach	304
4	Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania	269
5	Adaptation to climate change in Africa: Challenges and opportunities identified from Ethiopia	239
6	Extreme vulnerability of smallholder farmers to agricultural risks and climate change in Madagascar	195
7	A localized disaster-resilience index to assess coastal communities based on an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)	106
8	Travelling in antique lands: using past famines to develop an adaptability/resilience framework to identify food systems vulnerable to climate change	93
9	Household response to cyclone and induced surge in coastal Bangladesh: coping strategies and explanatory variables	82
10	Marginality and vulnerability – Why the homeless of Tokyo don’t “count” in disaster preparations	70

Retrieved 23 October 2021

Data availability statement

The data will be provided upon a reasonable request.