A web-GIS database of the scientific articles on earthquake-triggered landslides

Abstract

Abstract. Over the last two decades, the topic of earthquake-triggered landslides (EQTLs) has shown an increasing relevance in the scientific community. This interest is confirmed by the numerous articles published in the international, peer-reviewed journals. In this work we present a database containing a selection of articles published on this topic from 1984 to 2021. The articles were selected through a systematic search on the Clarivate analytics’ Web of Science-Core Collection™ online platform and were catalogued into a web-GIS, which was specifically designed to show different types of information. After a general analysis of the database, for each article were identified the bibliometric information (e.g., author(s), title, publication year), the relevant topic/sub-topic category(s) and the addressed earthquake(s). The analysis allowed to infer general information and statistics on EQTLs (e.g., relevant methodological approaches over time and in relation to the scale of investigation, most-studied events), which can be useful to get a spatial distribution of the articles and a general overview of the topic.