fixpage-dr-about.php
fixpage-dr-about.php
*Click a link below to jump to the section
Journal Information
Disasters have frequent and devastating impacts on human society. To improve disaster resilience, the Journal of Disaster Research publishes the latest ground-breaking research and information on a wide range of hazards as an international peer-reviewed journal. The regular issues are published six times a year. Available for free online, the journal is a comprehensive resource for a large and diverse global audience who work to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from disasters.
The journal title is abbreviated as "J. Disaster Res.".
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Disaster Research publishes timely and topical articles on disaster risk reduction. The journal’s wide and comprehensive scope covers natural and man-made disasters, such as geological disasters, meteorological disasters, hydrological and marine disasters, viral and other disaster-related disasters; lifeline disasters, transportation disasters, environmental disasters, food hygiene, nuclear disasters, terrorism, etc. Articles may offer a microscopic or macroscopic view on topics in basic/applied sciences, engineering, or explore the impacts of disaster on human society.
The journal’s broad global audience includes anyone interested or involved in disaster risk reduction or improving disaster resilience, including researchers, engineers, disaster management specialists, administrators, policy makers, government agency employees, and personnel in not-for-profit or non-governmental organizations. Supported by a strong and diverse Editorial Board, the journal aims to provide rapid turnaround times for authors and vital information for readers.
Open Access
Articles in the Journal of Disaster Research are free to access at the journal’s website. Authors are charged reasonable publication fees that offset the costs incurred in the peer review and publishing processes.
Indexing and Abstracting
JDR is indexed and abstracted in the following databases.
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- From 2015 Clarivate Analytics (former Intellectual Property and Science division of Thomson Reuters) has launched the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which extends the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields. ESCI also makes content important to funders, key opinion leaders, and evaluators visible in Web of Science Core Collection even if it has not yet demonstrated citation impact on an international audience.
Journals in ESCI have passed an initial editorial evaluation and can continue to be considered for inclusion in products such as SCIE, SSCI, and AHCI, which have rigorous evaluation processes and selection criteria. All ESCI journals will be indexed according to the same data standards, including cover-to-cover indexing, cited reference indexing, subject category assignment, and indexing all authors and addresses.
Rapidly changing research fields and the rise of interdisciplinary scholarship calls for libraries to provide coverage of relevant titles in evolving disciplines. ESCI provides Web of Science Core Collection users with expanded options to discover relevant scholarly content. Get real-time insight into a journal’s citation performance while the content is considered for inclusion in other Web of Science collections. Items in ESCI are searchable, discoverable, and citable so you can measure the contribution of an article in specific disciplines and identify potential collaborators for expanded research. - Scopus
- The largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources covering nearly 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 publishers. If you have a portable username and password, you can log in above to access Scopus.
- Compendex (Ei)
- Compendex is one of the most comprehensive engineering literature databases available to engineers. With 15.8 million records across 190 engineering disciplines, Compendex delivers the comprehensive, precise information and insights that researchers need. Available on Engineering Village, users get results that are consistently accurate. Relevant. Up-to-date. And easy to find. Compendex indexes 1,031 journals that contain articles-in-press.
- Ulrichsweb™ Global Serials Directory
- Ulrichsweb™ is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types–academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters and more from around the world.
- Genamics JournalSeek
- Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 100745 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field.
- Open J-Gate
- Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 8948 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.
- J-Global
- J-Global is operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
Accelerating Scientific Discovery and Development by Linking Information from Many Sources - NDL Search
- “NDL Search” is a new search service of National Diet Library. This service aims to be an access point from which you can use affluent knowledge from public libraries, archives, museums, institutes of academic research and NDL.
- CiNii Articles
- CiNii Articles is a database service which can search of information on academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database and databases.
- CNKI
- China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) is the largest Chinese academic database that includes academic journals, newspapers, doctoral dissertations, proceedings of conference, etc.
- CAB Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts is the most comprehensive source of international research information in agriculture, environment and all related applied life sciences, produced by CABI Publishing. CAB Abstracts covers over 8,000 rigorously selected serials, books, and conference proceedings across the applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition
Editorial Board
| Editor in Chief | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
|||
| Suminao Murakami Representative, Laboratory of Urban Safety Planning, Japan |
Haruo Hayashi President, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan |
|||
| Honorary Editor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Nobuo Shuto Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University, Japan | ||||
| Editorial Member | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| A. Armanini Professor, University of Trento, Italy |
C. Baker Professor, University of Birmingham, U.K. |
M. Bruneau Professor, University at Buffalo, USA |
H. Chen Director, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taiwan |
S. Egashira Research and Training Advisor, Public Works Research Institute, Japan |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| A. S. Elnashai Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. |
N. Hirata Executive Director, Research Center for Enhancing Metropolitan Resilience, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan |
M. Hosokawa Chief, Research and Development Division, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Japan |
S. Ikeda Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
K. Ikeuchi Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Director General, Earth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| H. Karaki President, Foundation of Food Safety and Security, Japan |
K. Kasai Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
T. Kato Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
S. Koshimura Professor, Tohoku University, Japan |
N. Maki Professor, Kyoto University, Japan |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| S. Nakada Director-General, Center for Integrated Volcano Research, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan |
S. Sadohara Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan |
R. Shaw Professor, Keio University, Japan |
S. Shinoda Professor Emeritus, Okayama University, Japan |
T. Takahashi Professor, Kansai University, Japan |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| K. Takiguchi Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
K. Tamura Professor, Niigata University, Japan |
K. Watanabe Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan |
A. C. Yalçiner Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey |
H. Yeh Professor, Oregon State University, U.S.A. |
*Unauthorized use of photos is prohibited.
Copyright and re-use of journal material
Authors are required to assign all copyrights in the manuscript to the publisher, Fuji Technology Press, Ltd. However, authors or their institutions may reproduce or authorize others to reproduce the published article, material extracted verbatim from the published article, or derivative works for the purposes of the author’s personal use or within institutional use. This use is dependent on the article and journal being fully attributed and on the publisher’s copyright notice being included. Copies or derivatives cannot be distributed without further permission from the publisher and cannot be used in any way that implies Fuji Technology Press Ltd.’s endorsement of a user’s, or their institution’s, products or services. All use must be non-commercial. For all circumstances not covered above, authors or their institutions must request permission from Fuji Technology Press Ltd.
JDR encourages authors of original research manuscripts to upload their ‘Author Accepted Manuscript’ (AAM) to an institutional or public repository immediately after publication in the journal. The AAM is the version of the manuscript that was accepted but before full production by the journal.
[NOTICE] Introduce of Creative Commons License.
We are preparing to introduce Creative Commons License. JDR articles will be published under a Creative Commons License CC BY-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) as of August 1st, 2021.
Contact
JDR Editorial Office: 