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title: "EM-DAT disaster database: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 73 archived papers mentioned EM-DAT disaster database in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2025 (5)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 73 archived papers mentioned EM-DAT disaster database in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2025 (5). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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# EM-DAT disaster database

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/2.md)

Weather observations, climate reanalyses and projections, and disaster records.

- data category: Weather, climate and disaster data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: EM-DAT, Emergency Events Database

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Weather, climate and disaster data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/weather-climate-and-disaster-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 73 archived papers mentioned EM-DAT disaster database in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2025 (5).
- EM-DAT disaster database was mentioned in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #79 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (3) and Operations Research (1).
- Most of them appeared in Economic Modelling (1), Italian Economic Journal (1) and Transportation Research Part B Methodological (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), EM-DAT disaster database was mentioned in 81 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (55), operations research (12) and finance (6).
- 21 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6), University of Bern (3) and Aston University (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (6), Environmental and Resource Economics (5) and European Economic Review (4).
- The most-cited of them is “Disaster Damage Records of EM-DAT and DesInventar: A Systematic Comparison” (Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2019), with 92 citations.
- Papers use EM-DAT disaster database most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (14), Eurostat (9) and Polity (7); it has 21 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 24 | 20 | 29 | 73 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 18 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 23 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Economics of Disasters and Climate Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-disasters-and-climate-change.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Public Choice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-choice.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 2 | University of Bern | 3 |
| 3 | Aston University | 2 |
| 4 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei | 2 |
| 5 | Gran Sasso Science Institute | 2 |
| 6 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 2 |
| 7 | Koç University | 2 |
| 8 | [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science.md) | 2 |
| 9 | Loughborough University | 2 |
| 10 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 19 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 3 | France | 11 |
| 4 | China | 8 |
| 5 | Germany | 8 |
| 6 | United States | 8 |
| 7 | Australia | 4 |
| 8 | Canada | 4 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 4 |
| 10 | Finland | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | natural disasters | 21 |
| 2 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [climate change adaptation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change-adaptation.md) | 6 |
| 4 | floods | 6 |
| 5 | [climate risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-risk.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [developing countries](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/developing-countries.md) | 5 |
| 7 | disaster response | 5 |
| 8 | humanitarian logistics | 5 |
| 9 | tropical cyclones | 5 |
| 10 | [climate policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-policy.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92 | 1.1 | [Disaster Damage Records of EM-DAT and DesInventar: A Systematic Comparison](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-019-00052-0) | [Economics of Disasters and Climate Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-disasters-and-climate-change.md) | 2019-12-10 | Vikrant Panwar, Subir Sen |
| 2 | 49 | 0.5 | [In harm's way: Climate security vulnerability in Asia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.007) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2018-08-20 | Joshua William Busby, Todd G. Smith, Nisha Krishnan et al. |
| 3 | 45 | 0.7 | [Optimal depot locations for humanitarian logistics service providers using robust optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2021.102494) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 2021-05-21 | Valentijn Stienen, Joris Camiel Wagenaar, Dick den Hertog et al. |
| 4 | 37 | 1.6 | [The effects of physical and transition climate risk on stock markets: Some multi-Country evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2024.100571) | [International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-economics.md) | 2024-11-28 | Marina Albanese, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Ida Colella et al. |
| 5 | 36 | 1.4 | [A social context-aware graph-based multimodal attentive learning framework for disaster content classification during emergencies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125337) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2024-09-13 | Shahid Shafi Dar, Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Karan Bais et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use EM-DAT disaster database most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (14), Eurostat (9) and Polity (7); it has 21 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use EM-DAT disaster database together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [World Development Indicators (World Bank)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-development-indicators-world-bank.md) | Dataset | 14 | 8.8 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 9 | 3.7 |
| [Polity](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/polity.md) | Dataset | 7 | 44.9 |
| [Worldwide Governance Indicators](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/worldwide-governance-indicators.md) | Dataset | 7 | 9.2 |
| [Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/night-time-lights-viirs-dmsp.md) | Dataset | 6 | 10.4 |
| [NOAA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/noaa.md) | Dataset | 6 | 15.3 |
| [Our World in Data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/our-world-in-data.md) | Dataset | 5 | 13.2 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.7 |
| [CMIP climate projections](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cmip-climate-projections.md) | Dataset | 4 | 28.5 |
| [CRU climate data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cru-climate-data.md) | Dataset | 4 | 76.2 |
| [MODIS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/modis.md) | Dataset | 4 | 5.8 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.0 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning EM-DAT disaster database in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [Physical disaster risk and sovereign debt distress](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107900) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | Edem Egnikpo | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Aix-Marseille Université; Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques |
| 2026-10-20 | [The Economics of Extreme Events: Risk, Policy, and Resilience](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-026-00417-x) | [Italian Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/italian-economic-journal.md) | Elina De Simone, Elena Paglialunga, Eleonora Pierucci | Roma Tre University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Modeling and simulating human behavior in large-scale emergency evacuations: A comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2026.103611) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | Shiva Moslemi, Ada Arıkanoğlu, Vedat Bayram et al. | Koç University; University of Kent; TED University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Economic Losses Associated With Tropical Cyclones in Mexico: A Two-stage Model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-026-00215-w) | [Economics of Disasters and Climate Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-disasters-and-climate-change.md) | Diana Estefanía Castillo Loeza, Francisco Iván Hernández Cuevas, David Romero | Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Universidad Marista de Mérida |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). EM-DAT disaster database. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/em-dat-disaster-database

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {EM-DAT disaster database},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).