Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Urban Resilience: Towards a Systematic Framework

Abstract

Amid increasing challenges associated with urbanisation and climate change, urban resilience has become a central focus in scientific research. The rapid evolution of this field has resulted in fragmented theoretical perspectives, which hinder a comprehensive interpretation of current studies. This study aims to identify the principal dimensions of urban resilience and to systematise them through bibliometric analysis. The identified research gap is the absence of a coherent conceptual framework that integrates contemporary trends in urban resilience research. The study introduces an original conceptual framework comprising five dimensions of urban resilience and an overarching dimension of disruption that integrates the remaining components. The methodology includes a literature review and bibliometric analysis of works published between 2010 and 2025 and indexed in the Scopus database, utilising keyword co-occurrence analysis in VOSviewer. The findings reveal that recent research predominantly addresses administrative-managerial and infrastructural-spatial dimensions, whereas environmental, economic, and social dimensions are comparatively underrepresented. This study consolidates the existing body of research on urban resilience. It presents a conceptual framework for green urban resilience, which may serve as a basis for future investigations into the development of the urban resilience concept.