Li Fan;Ma Chi;Huang Desheng
As global climate keeps getting warmer,extreme weather occurs frequently,which results in more serious disaster and loss.Therefore,study on extreme weather has become an important issue on which the researchers gradually focus in scientific field.In this study,the authors collected literatures on extreme weather from Web of Science.Then,statistical procedure was performed in the following aspects:annual publication number,publication type,countries,institutes,authors,sources,and subject categories.And highly cited authors,publications,and literatures were determined.Moreover,co-citation clustering analysis was performed for the highly cited literatures to explore the hot research topics in this field.By this informational analysis,this paper aimed to discover the status and development in the field of extreme weather and provide the enlightenment and information reference for researchers and decision makers to study better in the field.