Some Elements of Analysis of the Bibliography on Risk and Resilience on COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis generated in a few months an unprecedented mobilization in our contemporary history. In the scientific world, this mobilization has taken the form of a massive publication of special issues of newspapers, opinion papers, position papers, critical analysis, methodological proposals and even the sharing of ongoing experiments. The review times allocated by the newspapers have been greatly shortened and many platforms and publishers have made these papers accessible to all audiences. In what follows, we will present a summary of the bibliometric analysis of the publications on COVID-19 on three mains topics: “Trends & Socio-economic impacts”, “Risk Governance” and “Science-Policy interaction”. This analysis revealed: A strong concentration of paper’ publications on the topic of health risks prevention to individuals. A weak integrated and systemic analysis of the COVID-19 crisis. A strong mobilization of health expertise during crisis management’ decisions and the weak representation of expertise in the humanities and social sciences. The poor characterization of the socioeconomic consequences of the crisis on verities of economic sectors and on different scales of territories. A strong need to share experience on the frontiers between science, politics and decision making as experienced and mobilized within countries and cultures.