Table 1.
Examples of resilience-related review studies.
| Field | Purpose | Method | Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate change [8,10] | • Explore the production of knowledge in the field of climate change | • Bibliometric analysis (proportions of publications, co-citation patterns, keyword links) | • Guide future research on climate change integration with other fields • Develop shared understanding of resilience under disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation philosophy |
| Disaster [8,13,21] | • Explore trends in scientific outputs and contributions regarding the resilience agenda | • Systematic literature review on the historical development of disaster resilience • Bibliometric analysis (keywords, citation and co-citation, institutions, country-wise analyses) |
• Identify hotspots in diverse disaster resilience research • Bridge concept between fields • Guide development, implementation, and evaluation of disaster and community resilience policies |
| Urban [12,13,60] | • Create a conceptual framework to support the production of urban resilience tools | • Systematic literature review on the scientific and technical literature about urban resilience • Bibliometric analysis (co-citation network) |
• Systematic approach to urban resilience for building cities • Foster resilience in urban settings and encourage collaboration among researchers and stakeholders • Act as a boundary object for defining urban resilience |
| Energy [11,24] | • Clarify the concept of energy resilience and propose a taxonomy | • Systematic literature review on characters, indicators, and formula of energy system resilience • Bibliometric analysis (core author, productive counties, keywords, co-citation) |
• Trace conceptual contributions and identify gaps in energy system resilience research • Provide opportunities for future research on energy resilience frameworks and modeling methods |
| Organization [9] | • Analyze the definition of resilience and elaborate a novel conceptual framework on resilience of firms | • Systematic literature review on resilience in business and management field | • Contribute to resilience literature on firms with absorptive and adaptive resilience paths |
| Safety [31] | • Examine how the peer-reviewed safety science constructs resilience as a scientific object | • Systematic literature review on resilience in organization and safety | • Highlight complexities of socio-technical systems and the need for resilience engineering studies • Raise ethical questions for safety science field |
| Industrial ecology [35] | • Review resilience and complexity in industrial ecology and the broader academy | • Systematic literature review on resilience definitions excluding medical and health science • Bibliometric analysis (co-citation network of the literature on resilience and complexity, and industrial ecology and resilience |
• Promote dynamic resilience principles in industrial ecology • Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and advance resilience scholarship |
| Socio-ecology [7,61] | • Analyze the resilience-related research trends of ecological, economic, social, and integrated socioecological systems | • Bibliometric analysis (number of publications per year, rank of journals, co-citation, co-authors, top productive countries, and distribution of case areas covered in resilience publications) | • Broaden application of resilience to socioeconomic systems and sustainability science • Drive urgent action-oriented solutions for ecological degradation |
| Business [62] | • Analyze research trends in the supply chain resilience | • Bibliometric analysis (keywords, co-authors, co-citation network) • Systematic literature review on supply chain resilience in SMEs in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic |
• Provide foundation for future supply chain resilience studies • Expand research scope in various subfields of supply chain resilience |
| Psychology [30] | • Synthesize studies on resilience, coping behaviors and social support among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic | • Systematic literature review on selected papers regarding “psychological resilience”, “mental health”, “healthcare workers”, “social support”, and “COVID- 19″ | • Inform nursing management and strategies for enhancing resilience and social support in healthcare workers' mental health |
| Health care [25] | • Identify how resilient health care (RHC) literature developed over time | • Bibliometric analysis (keywords, co-authors, and definition references network) • Systematic literature review on concepts, stages, analytical frameworks, and implementation of health system resilience |
• Understand growth and changes in resilient health care field • Shift focus towards generating resilience in healthcare organizations • Provide refinements to the current understanding of health system resilience considering the COVID-19 pandemic |