Managing Uncertainty: Exploring Risk Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic through Bibliometrics Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.37231/jmtp.2025.6.1.469Keywords:
Risk, Management, Covid19, Biblioshiny, VisualizationAbstract
This paper conducted a bibliometric review of research investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on risk management. Our analysis uses Biblioshiny R Studio software to map and visualize scientific results. Our dataset consists of 380 scientific articles from 193 journals written by 1144 contributors sourced from the Scopus database since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. The study shows that the Journal of Risk Research is the most productive journal, with the most regional contributions from the United States. Using keyword grouping, topics that emerged in risk management in the COVID-19 era were described. The focus is risk assessment, management, supply chain management, decision-making, and perception. Our findings improve our understanding of the research landscape and patterns in the field's intellectual, conceptual, and social structures. This paper offers solutions for future studies and discusses implications for policy and management using various keyword analysis techniques.
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