Data for: The Knowledge Development Route and Major Research Areas of Public Risk Governance

The bibliographic records were retrived from the WoS Core Collection Database on 11th April 2018. The search query was public emergency OR public crisis OR public risk OR catastrophe OR disaster AND governance by themes from 1993-2018. The search results were again filtered by literature type "Article and Review papers" and Category "Environmental studies, public administration, political science, planning development, sociology/social science interdisciplinary, social issues/social works". The final dataset include 1,354 records with 67,646 references. The data analysis and visualisation employed tools including VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and Leximancer.