Note from the publisher

Citation

(2002), "Note from the publisher", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 11 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2002.07311eaa.002

Note from the publisher

Emerald is going from strength to strength. The Fulltext database is now available to over 700 institutions world wide, reaching a vast potential audience of undergraduates, postgraduates and faculty members in academia; as well as managers, senior executives and decision makers in corporations and professional practices. There are currently over 38,000 articles from 151 different journals available on Emerald, making it one of the most complete sources of management research in the world. Articles on Emerald Fulltext average 471,800 downloads per month between them, meaning that dissemination of papers in Emerald journals is second to none.

Disaster Prevention and Management is an important part of the Emerald success story. It is habitually in the top half of most accessed journals on the Emerald database and, in the year from October 2001 to October 2002, the articles within the journal archive were downloaded and read over 22,500 times! This means that over 1,800 people from all over the world are reading articles from DPM each month. What is more, this usage is growing. As Emerald expands into new markets and new subscriber offers, more academics and professional managers have access to this unique resource and are choosing Emerald journals to read and cite in their management research.

Recent papers of note from DPM

Disaster Prevention and Management publishes a broad spectrum of papers on all aspects of recovery planning, risk assessment and disaster management, written by authors from all over the world. The following are a small selection of papers published during 2002, which reflect the diverse interests of the journal's authors and readership:

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  "Should marine insurance companies take seriously chaos theory?", Alexander Goulielmos, Constantine Giziakis and Michalis Pasarzis; all from the Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece.

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  "Bright Sparklers fire and explosions: the lessons learned", Ibrahim M. Shaluf, Fakharul-razi Ahmadun, Sa'ari Mustapha, Aini Mat Said and Rashid Sharif, all at the University of Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.

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  "The unseen enemy: the 'dark horse"', Hakan Preiholt, School of Business, Stockholm University, Sweden.

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  "Terrorism and 11 September 2001: does the 'behavioral response to disaster' model fit?", Henry W. Fischer III, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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  "The choreography of death: observations from Turkey and Greece", Hayim Granot, Mass Emergencies Project, School of Social Work, Bar-llan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.