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Review of landslide susceptibility assessment based on knowledge mapping

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Landslide susceptibility assessment is highly valuable for disaster prevention and mitigation. This study utilized the aspects of data and content to comprehensively examine the research status of landslide susceptibility. First, we used CiteSpace to visually analyze papers with “landslide susceptibility” as their theme word in the Web of Science database from 1991 to 2020. Next, we summarized the characteristics of quantitative trends, journals, authors, organization types, and keywords, and created a map of authors, institutions, and keywords. Then we presented the common methods and their advantages and disadvantages of landslide inventory, evaluation index, evaluation unit, evaluation model and verification method, combs the shortcomings of each part at the present stage, and looks forward to the possible research direction in the future. Finally, the research difficulties of landslide susceptibility in spatial scale, qualitative and quantitative problems, and spatial representation of landslide information are discussed. We find that the development of 3S and new technology in computer field promotes the development of landslide susceptibility research, makes landslide inventory more efficient and accurate, makes the assessment factor system considering factor contribution more reasonable, and makes more intelligent models applied to landslide susceptibility research. The results are beneficial for researchers to understand the current landslide susceptibility condition and can provide a reference for subsequent landslide susceptibility studies.

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This work is supported by the Natural Science Research Project of Yichang City (No. A21-3-006), the China Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring Project (No. DD20190638), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42107489).

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Yong, C., Jinlong, D., Fei, G. et al. Review of landslide susceptibility assessment based on knowledge mapping. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 36, 2399–2417 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-021-02165-z

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