Identifying the intellectual structure of risk management studies

To explore the intellectual structure of risk management research in the last twelve years, the most crucial publications, most influential scholars, as well as the correlations among the publications of these scholars were identified. In this study, bibliometric techniques (citation analysis and cocitation analysis) were used to investigate the intellectual pillars of the risk management literature. By analyzing 28,415 citations of 815 articles regarding risk managment, published from 2002 to 2013 and obtained from the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index databases, a knowledge network of risk management studies was mapped. The mapping results can be used to help identify the direction of risk management research and provide a valuable tool for researchers to access the literature in this field.