TITLE:
Vulnerability and Resilience of Ecosystems and Communities Facing Climate Change: A Bibliometric Analysis
AUTHORS:
Maman Chaibou Abdoul Kader, Issaharou Matchi Issiaka
KEYWORDS:
Vulnerability, Resilience, Ecosystem, Climate Change, Adaptation, Community
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Climate Change,
Vol.14 No.4,
October
31,
2025
ABSTRACT: Concepts of vulnerability and resilience are complex, multidisciplinary phenomena. The bibliometric analysis serves as a reference for the research world. It offers a quantitative and objective overview of scientific activity, allowing researchers, institutions, and decision-makers to navigate more effectively in the complex landscape of knowledge. The main objective of a bibliometric analysis is to quantify and analyze scientific production to understand the structure, dynamics, and impact of research in a given domain. This study has quantitatively analyzed three major themes, including vulnerability and resilience of climate change ecosystems, vulnerability and resilience of communities to climate change, and adaptation of ecosystems and communities to climate change, as well as the global trends in micro, meso, and meta scale research using the Open Alex database from 1994 to 2024. The analysis has particularly emphasized historical development, keywords, citations and co-citations, institutions, and countries. The results have made it possible to identify globally 2510, 2042, and 1038 research articles, respectively, on the vulnerability and resilience of ecosystems, the vulnerability and resilience of communities, and the adaptation of communities and ecosystems to climate change. The study also revealed an emerging and rapidly growing trend for studies conducted particularly in the field of vulnerability and resilience of communities and ecosystems to climate change. In addition, this analysis shows that the number of publications on the vulnerability and resilience of climate change ecosystems exceeds those on the vulnerability and resilience of communities and significantly exceeds those on the adaptation of ecosystems and communities. This study shows that the majority of publications were in English.