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Manual or Machine? A Review of the Crisis and Disaster Literature
Author(s) -
Kuipers Sanneke,
Kantorowicz Jaroslaw,
Mostert Jan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.12181
Subject(s) - de facto , software , set (abstract data type) , computer science , data science , political science , law , programming language
This review aims to map the literature on crisis and disasters by means of a machine‐read assessment of the scholarly debate in these domains. The software analyzed abstracts of over 1,000 articles of four related crisis and disaster journals—to find out how the software categorizes their content in a set of topics, what the dominant topics of discussion are, how the topics are distributed over the journals, and what profiles the journals de facto have. The review reflects on the advantages and the limits of machine‐read classification and analysis vis‐à‐vis the manual approach. The conclusion offers an agenda for further research and debate.