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Urban Resilience Research: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

  • 1. Ordu University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Ordu/Türkiye

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This study adopted a bibliometric analysis approach to reveal the scientific trends in the urban resilience literature. To this end, the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database was used.

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