Knowledge Map Analysis of Crisis Management Research

To make visualization analysis of crisis management, it takes the related literature data range from 2001 to 2012. as foundation. The data were collected from series database of Web of Knowledge, and the knowledge maps were drawn by the software CiteSpace II. Through the visualization analysis, it aims to reveal the researching power distribution, the mainly related discipline, the knowledge foundation and front of crisis management research. The results show that the international crisis management researching power existed in not only developed countries but also developing countries; and the mainly related disciplines involve in computer science, business and economics, geology, remote sensing, marine and freshwater biological, engineering, urban studies, social things, etc; besides, the knowledge structure of crisis management appears "core-edge" shape obviously, the researching core form a independent knowledge cluster; and the new researching project have little achievement in recent years, it still kept the inherent characteristics.